Psalm 78:55 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁵ He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁵ He 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁵ He drove out the nations also before [Israel] and allotted their land as a heritage, measured out and partitioned; and He made the tribes of Israel to dwell in the tents of those dispossessed.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁵ He 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.

Common English Bible

⁵⁵ God drove out the nations before them and apportioned property for them; he settled Israel’s tribes in their tents.

Psalm 78:55 Cross References

Psalm 44:2

you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;

Psalm 44:3

for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory, but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, for you delighted in them.

Isaiah 34:17

He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line. [[They shall possess it; from generation to generation they shall live in it.

Numbers 33:54

You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans; to a large one you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small one you shall give a small inheritance; the inheritance shall belong to the person on whom the lot falls; according to your ancestral tribes you shall apportion it.

Joshua 13:7

Now, therefore, divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

Joshua 19:51

These are the inheritances that the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites distributed by lot at Shiloh before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

Joshua 21:43

Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to their ancestors that he would give them, and having taken possession of it, they settled there.

Joshua 23:4

I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.