| Thom Scott - Theology - 1824 - 758 pages
...each of these seventy persons represented one nation ; and so we are informed by the word of God. " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel." Deut. xxxii. 8. Here we may learn that the * lot of God was in number as much as that of all the seventy... | |
| S H. Jackson - 1824 - 488 pages
...nations to be inherited; when he parted the children of men; he placed the bounds of the people agaiast the number of the Children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the line of his inheritance." Here we arc taught, that mankind were divided into inheritances,... | |
| William Hone - 1824 - 358 pages
...us 5 to partake of his election. 7 For so it is written, 6 When the i\lost High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he- set the bounds of the nations, ac1 Coveiedi 2 .linemen is ' 3 Psalm xxxix. 7 4 Mind. 5 A purl. 6DeiU. sxxii.8,9. 150 How... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...divine appointment. This is intimated in several places of scripture. We read Deuteronomy xxxii. 8, 9, " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." This refers to the dispersion of mankind after the flood, and... | |
| David Jennings - Bible - 1825 - 660 pages
...nations then planted in the \\ odd, fa notion which they ground on the following passage in Deuteronomy : "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel;" chap, xxxii. 8. That is, say they, he divided them into seventy nations, seventy being the number of... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...years of many generations ; ask thy father and he will shew thee, thy elders and they will tell thee. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...people, according to the number of the children of Isreal."f Canaan and his posterity were directed to take possession of Palestine, rather than any other... | |
| William Bruce - 1826 - 466 pages
....-. - That beautiful passage in Deuteronomy, is also understood to relate to the Angel of the Lord: "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance;...Children of Israel: for the Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot. of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, in the waste, howling wilderness:... | |
| William Bruce - 1826 - 464 pages
...blessed." That beautiful passage in Deuteronomy, is also understood to relate to the Angel of the Lord : "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance...according to the number of the Children of Israel t for the Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert... | |
| George Townsend - Bible - 1826 - 902 pages
...ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; **£•#%'thy elders, and they will tell thee. generation. 8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the LORD'S portion is his people ; Jacob is the § lot \ Heb. art. of his inheritance. AC MM.... | |
| John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 600 pages
...proper interest. But instead of instances, take two or three testimonies that occur: Deut. xxxii. 8. 'When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...according to the number of the children of Israel:' from the beginning God hath so ordered all the nations of the world, that they may bear a proportion... | |
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