Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. 55 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. 56 Yet they tested and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Cross References
Psalm 44:2
How you did drive out the nations with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
Joshua 13:7
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
Numbers 33:54
And you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities, which you built not,
Joshua 6:1-21
Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Joshua 19:51
These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. So they finished dividing the country.
Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the Great Sea westward.
Nehemiah 9:22-25
Moreover you gave them kingdoms and nations, and did distribute them even into the corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Psalm 105:44-45
And gave them the lands of the nations: and they inherited the labor of the people;
Psalm 135:10-12
Who struck great nations, and slew mighty kings;
Psalm 136:18-22
And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures forever: