Psalm 105:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² When they were few in number, of little account and strangers in it,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² When they were but a few men in number; Yea, very few, and strangers in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² When they were but a few men in number, in fact, very few, and were temporary residents and strangers in it,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

Common English Bible

¹² When they were few in number— insignificant, just immigrants—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And they believed his words, and they sang his praises.

Psalm 105:12 Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:7

“It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

Genesis 23:4

“I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, “as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.”

Acts 7:5

He did not give him any of it as a heritage, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as his possession and to his descendants after him, even though he had no child.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah, who bore you, for he was but one when I called him, but I blessed him and made him many.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they resided as aliens.