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.

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Bible References

Divided

Genesis 10:25
And to Eber have two sons been born; the name of the one is Peleg (for in his days hath the earth been divided,) and his brother's name is Joktan.
Genesis 11:9
therefore hath one called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Psalm 115:16
The heavens -- the heavens are Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,
Acts 17:26
He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --

He set

Genesis 10:15
And Canaan hath begotten Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
Genesis 15:18
In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, 'To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,

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Numbers 33:53
and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land -- to possess it.