Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
And strangers
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Bible References
A few
Genesis 34:30
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have brought trouble on me by making me loathsome to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites. My numbers are few. If they gather themselves against me and attack my household I will be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7:7
Jehovah set his heart on you. He chose you, even though you did not outnumber all the other people. You were the smallest of all nations.
Deuteronomy 26:5
Answer before Jehovah your God: 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and traveled there. They were few in number but he became a great, mighty and populous nation.
Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one. I blessed him and made him many.
Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, those who live in the ruined cities in Israel are saying: 'Abraham was only one person, and he was given the land. But we are many. Certainly the land has been given to us.'
And strangers
Genesis 17:8
The whole land of Canaan, where you are now a guest (alien) (foreigner) (stranger), I will give a long lasting possession to you and your descendants after you. I will be their God.
Genesis 23:4
He said: I am a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb that I can bury my dead wife.
Acts 7:5
He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. Yet he promised that he would give it to him and his seed after him for a possession. This promise was made before he had a child.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.
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Genesis 13:15
All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring (descendants) from generation to generation.