Psalm 105:12

New American Bible - revised edition

When they were few in number, a handful, and strangers there,

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now residing as aliens, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God.

Genesis 23:4

“Although I am a resident alien among you, sell me from your holdings a burial place, that I may bury my deceased wife.”

Genesis 34:30

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have brought trouble upon me by making me repugnant to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have so few men that, if these people unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be wiped out.”

Exodus 6:4

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

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth; Though he was but one when I called him, I blessed him and made him many.

Acts 7:5

Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but he did promise to give it to him and his descendants as a possession, even though he was childless.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, your God, “My father was a refugee Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a resident alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.

Deuteronomy 7:7

It was not because you are more numerous than all the peoples that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you; for you are really the smallest of all peoples.

Hebrews 11:12

So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he sojourned in the promised land as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise;