Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 He carried them unto the borders of his Sanctuary: even to this mountain, which he purchased with his righthand. 55 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. 56 Yet, for all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant:
Cross References
Psalm 44:2
How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.
Joshua 13:7
Now therefore divide this land to inherit, unto the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh."
Numbers 33:54
And ye shall divide the inheritance of the land by lot among your kindreds, and give to the more the more inheritance, and to the fewer the less inheritance. And your inheritance shall be in the tribes of your fathers, in the place where every man's lot falleth.
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And when the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give thee with great and goodly cities which thou buildst not,
Joshua 6:1-21
And Jericho shut in her people, and was shut for fear of the children of Israel, so that no man went out or in.
Joshua 19:51
These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the ancient fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and so made an end of dividing the country.
Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have appointed these nations that remain to be the inheritance of your tribes: even from Jordan, and all the nations that I have destroyed, even unto the great sea.
Nehemiah 9:22-25
And thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and partest them according to their portions, so that they possessed the land of Sihon king of Heshbon, and the land of Og the king of Bashan.
Psalm 105:44-45
and gave them the lands of the Heathen; where they took the labours of the people in possession,
Psalm 135:10-12
He smote divers nations, and slew mighty kings -
Psalm 136:18-22
Yea, and slew mighty kings! For his mercy endureth forever.