Acts 13:19

Acts 13:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
• New International Version (NIV)and he overthrew seven nations in Canaan, giving their land to his people as their inheritance.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land to them by allotment.

Context of Acts 13:19

17The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance. 20All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. 21Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

Acts 13:19 word by word

καὶ καθελὼν ἔθνη ἑπτὰ ἐν γῇ Χανάαν κατεκληρονόμησεν τὴν γῆν αὐτῶνRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• when he had destroyedκαθαιρέωkathaireō · to take downG2507
• sevenἑπτάhepta · sevenG2033
• nationsἔθνοςethnos · GentilesG1484
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• the landγῆgē · earth: countryG1093
• of ChanaanΧαναάνChanaan · CanaanG5477
• he dividedκατακληροδοτέωkataklērodoteō · to distributeG2624
• theirαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• landὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588

Cross-references for Acts 13:19

• Acts 7:45Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.
• Deuteronomy 7:1When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you –
• Joshua 24:11You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.
• Nehemiah 9:24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
• Psalms 78:55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
• Genesis 12:5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 17:8I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
• Psalms 135:11Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan.
• Numbers 26:53“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.
• Joshua 14:1The following is a record of the territory assigned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders.
• Joshua 18:10Joshua drew lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord and divided the land among the Israelites according to their allotted portions.
• Joshua 23:4See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the nations I defeated.

Commentaries on Acts 13:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19Destroyed seven nations - The Canaanites, Hittites, Girgasites, Amorites, Hivites, Peresites, and Jebusites. The rabbins frequently call them אומות שבעה Shebaah Omoth, the Seven Nations.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19And when he had destroyed - Subdued, cast out, or extirpated them as nations. It does not mean that all were put to death, for many of them were left in the land; but that they were subdued as nations, they were broken up and overcome, Deuteronomy 7:1, “And hath cast out many nations before them,” etc. Seven nations - The Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, Deuteronomy 7:1; Joshua 3:10…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-31Verses 14-31 When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is not enough; they should be expounded, and the people exhorted out of them. This is helping people in doing that which is necessary to make the word profitable, to apply it to themselves. Every thing is touched upon in this sermon, which might best…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-22To establish common ground with his audience, Paul traced Jewish history starting from the Israelite exodus from Egypt. He emphasized: the Israelites' escape from Egyptian slavery, their settlement in Canaan, the establishment of the kingdom of Israel, the removal of King Saul, and the special role of King David.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 18-2218-22. forty years suffered he their manners--rather, according to what appears the true reading, "cherished he them" (as a nurse the infant in her bosom).Read the comment

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• Acts of the Apostles
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• Chronology of the Old Testament

Commentaries on Acts 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings