 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 sidor
...people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. — Deut. xiv. 1,2. xxvi. 17— 19. For the Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance, &c. He led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. — Deut. xxxii. 9, 10.... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 sidor
...thought of euch little worth, as to make them common to all mankind ? (i) p. 20. " A people, &c." " For the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 32 Deut. 9." (*) v.21. " Angry, &c." See Numb. xx. S. 8. 10. 12. The people gathered them•elves together... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 758 sidor
...that family, which was afterwards a nation. Abraham fell to • the lot of God, as it is written, " For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." Deut. xxxii. 9. But here it should be known, that the lot of God was as much in number as that of all... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1824 - 366 sidor
...jewels, and he will preserve them ; yea, he will spare them as a man spareth his son that serveth him. " The Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." They are near to his heart, and to his eye, and his ear is open to their complaints. " Blessed are... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 sidor
...and I am come down to deliver them, &c. — Exod. iii. 7 — 9. ii. 23 — 25. 1 Sam. ix. 1£. Tlie Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance : he found him in a desert land, &c. He led him ubout (or encompassed him about) : he instructed him... | |
 | 1038 sidor
...Dent. nodi. 8 — 11, and see in what tender and endearing language this guardian care is 8poken of: "For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about ; he instructed... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 sidor
...the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the 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 represents God as alloting the places... | |
 | 1842 - 982 sidor
...in these advantages, and, on account of them especially, were they designated the people of God. " For the Lord's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of bis inheritance." — Deut. xxxii. 9. "And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them, by his messengers... | |
 | John Scott - 1826 - 650 sidor
...reckoned seventy-two angels that presided over them ; and indeed, considering what follows, ver. 9. for the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance, it seems very probable that this translation of the Septuagint was the true sense of the original,... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 566 sidor
...9, we have it, " He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." As if he had said, As there, the lines did not fall beyond the place where the number of the children... | |
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When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 
