He said this when they were few in number,
a tiny group of strangers in Canaan.
They wandered from nation to nation,
from one kingdom to another.
Yet he did not let anyone oppress them.
He warned kings on their behalf:
"Do not touch my chosen people,
and do not hurt my prophets."
He said this when they were few in number, a tiny group of strangers in Canaan.
Deuteronomy 7:7 "The LORD did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!" (see verses 1-11)
Genesis 23:4 "Here I (Abraham) am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial."
(see all chapter 23)
Genesis 34:30 Afterward Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have ruined me! You've made me stink among all the people of this land--among all the Canaanites, and Perizzites. We are so few that they will join forces and crush us. I will be ruined, and my entire household will be wiped out!"
(see all chapter 34)
Hebrews 11:9 And even when he (Abraham) reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith--for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and Jacob, who inherited the same promise. (see verses 8-10)
They wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
Genesis 15:13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years." (see all chapter 15)
Numbers 32:13 "The LORD was angry with Israel and made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that sinned in the LORD's sight had died." (see all chapter 32)
Numbers 33:1-3, 48-49 This is the route the Israelites followed as they marched out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. At the LORD's direction, Moses kept a written record of their progress. These are the stages of their march, identified by the different places where they stopped along the way.
They set out from the city of Rameses in early spring--on the fifteenth day of the first month--on the morning after the first Passover celebration. The people of Israel left defiantly, in full view of all the Egyptians.
... They left the mountains east of the river and camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan, across from Jericho. Along the Jordan River they camped from Beth-jeshimoth as far as the meadows of Acacia on the plains of Moab. (see all chapter 33)
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