Psalms 105:12
What does Psalms 105:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 105:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
KJV
King James Version · 1611When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
- Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Acts 7:5
and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
- Hebrews 11:9
By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
- Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
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