Deuteronomy 32:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 10:15

And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,

Genesis 10:25

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:5

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

1 Chronicles 16:18

Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

Job 15:19

For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Psalm 50:14

Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;

Psalm 7:17

I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.

Psalm 74:17

By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

Psalm 82:6

I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:

Psalm 91:1

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Psalm 92:8

But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.

Isaiah 14:14

I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

Daniel 4:17

This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.

Daniel 5:18

As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:

Micah 2:5

For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.

Numbers 23:9

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

Numbers 24:16

He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who has knowledge of the Most High, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down and having his eyes open:

Acts 17:26

And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

Acts 7:48

But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

Deuteronomy 33:28

And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.