Psalms 105:12
10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
11 “I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
13 they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
14 He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:
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- ÅB
- Da de var en liten flokk, få og fremmede der,
- OTB
- Da de var få i antall,
Svært få, og fremmede der, - B1930
- Da de var en liten flokk, få og fremmede der,
- BSB
- When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
- KJV
- When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
- WEB
- when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
- ASV
- When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
- DARBY
- When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
- BLB
- In their being few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,
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Genesis 34:30
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Les i sammenhengDeuteronomy 7:7
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
Les i sammenhengHebrews 11:9
By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Les i sammenhengGenesis 23:4
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Les i sammenhengDeuteronomy 26:5
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
Les i sammenhengIsaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
Les i sammenhengEzekiel 33:24–33
“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
Les i sammenhengHebrews 11:12
And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
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