Bible Strands
Acts 13:19
And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker recounts God’s conquest of Canaan to listeners reviewing Israel’s history between the wilderness wandering and the subsequent era of the judges.
The words — The text highlights καθελὼν (kathelōn), meaning having destroyed, and κατεκληρονόμησεν (kateklēronomēsen), meaning He gave as an inheritance.
The thread — This pattern of driving out nations and apportioning their land as an inheritance runs in Deuteronomy 7:1, Psalms 78:55, and Acts 7:45.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that territorial possession followed divine military action, framing land acquisition as a direct result of conquest rather than human effort.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
- Psalms 78:55 He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
- Acts 7:45 And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
- Joshua 14:1 Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.
- Joshua 19:51 These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.
- Genesis 17:8 And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
- Genesis 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 26:53 “The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
- Joshua 18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.
- Joshua 24:11 After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.