Psalms 78:55
What does Psalms 78:55 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 78:55 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000He 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611He 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901He 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And 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,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Not available in this translation
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And 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.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 19:51
These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’housesof the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.
- Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have allotted unto you 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 toward the going down of the sun.
- Joshua 6:1
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
- Numbers 33:54
And ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: wheresoever the lot falleth to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherit.
- Psalms 135:10
Who smote many nations, And slew mighty kings,
- Deuteronomy 6:10
And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee, great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not,
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