Psalms 105:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 105:12

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

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ASV

When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

WEB

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

YLT

In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.

DBT

When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Deuteronomy 7:7
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

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16 ), because he was always generous; and yet even in this world he was not wanting to them, but that he might appear, to do uncommon things for them, he exercised them with uncommon trials. [1.] They were few, very few. Abraham was called alone ( Isa. li.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

few . . . in number--alluding to Jacob's words (Ge 34:30), "I being few in number." yea, very few--literally, "as a few," that is, like fewness itself (compare Isa 1:9). strangers--sojourners in the land of their future inheritance, as in a strange country (Heb 11:9).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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PSA 105:12DEU 7:7 DEU 10:22
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 105:12HEB 11:9 GEN 12:8
PSA 105:12HEB 11:9 GEN 13:18
PSA 105:12DEU 7:7 ROM 9:11-15
PSA 105:12DEU 26:5 GEN 46:27
PSA 105:12HEB 11:9 GEN 13:3
PSA 105:12HEB 11:9 HEB 6:17
PSA 105:12DEU 26:5 GEN 31:20

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