Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
New American Standard Bible
And
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
King James Version
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Holman Bible
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
International Standard Version
He drove out nations before them and allotted their tribal inheritance, settling the tribes of Israel in their tents.
A Conservative Version
He also drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
American Standard Version
He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Amplified
He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
Bible in Basic English
Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will cast out the nations from their face, and he will divide them by lot in the measure of inheritance, and he will cause the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
King James 2000
He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by [boundary] line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Modern King James verseion
He also cast out the nations before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He cast out the heathen before them, caused their land to be divided among them for a heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
NET Bible
He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
New Heart English Bible
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
The Emphasized Bible
So he drave out, before them, whole nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.
Webster
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
World English Bible
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Youngs Literal Translation
And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:55
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
54 And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased; 55 And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56 But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
Cross References
Psalm 44:2
Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.
Joshua 13:7
And now divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and to half the tribe of Manasseh;
Numbers 33:54
And ye shall take for yourselves the land as an inheritance by lot according to your families: to the many ye shall increase their inheritance, and to the few thou shalt diminish their inheritance: where the lot falleth to him, there shall be each man's inheritance; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye take for yourselves the inheritance.
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into the land which he swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee: great and good cities which thou buildedst not,
Joshua 6:1-21
Now Jericho was shut up and was barred, because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Joshua 19:51
These were the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And they ended dividing the land.
Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot for an inheritance, according to your tribes, these nations that remain, from the Jordan, as well as all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the great sea toward the sun-setting.
Nehemiah 9:22-25
And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.
Psalm 105:44-45
And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:
Psalm 135:10-12
Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings,
Psalm 136:18-22
And slew famous kings, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;