Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

General references

Bible References

Divided

Genesis 10:25
Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 11:9
That is why its name was called Babel -- because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
Psalm 115:16
The heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.
Acts 17:26
From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

He set

Genesis 10:15
Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,
Genesis 15:18
That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River --

General references

Numbers 33:53
You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

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