Deuteronomy 32:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;

Cross References

Acts 17:26

From one ancestor he made all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,

Daniel 4:17

The sentence is rendered by decree of the watchers, the decision is given by order of the holy ones, in order that all who live may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of mortals; he gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of human beings.’

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the earth he has given to human beings.

Psalm 92:8

but you, O Lord, are on high forever.

Psalm 91:1

You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,

Genesis 10:25

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:15

Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth

Acts 7:48

Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands; as the prophet says,

Daniel 5:18

As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty.

Isaiah 14:14

I will ascend to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Psalm 82:6

I say, “You are gods, children of the Most High, all of you;

Psalm 50:14

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 7:17

I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Numbers 24:16

the oracle of one who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down but with eyes uncovered:

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the crags I see him; from the hills I behold him. Here is a people living alone and not reckoning itself among the nations!

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel lives in safety, untroubled is Jacob’s abode in a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drop down dew.

Psalm 74:17

You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you made summer and winter.

Micah 2:5

Therefore you will have no one in the Lord’s assembly to allot you a piece of land.

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the descendants of Japheth in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.

1 Chronicles 16:18

saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.”

Job 15:19

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.