Devine Scripture

Psalms 105:12

Psalms chapter 105 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

Context

v.11Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;

v.12This passage

v.13And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

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.