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Psalm 105:13

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

11saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,”
12when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
13They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
14He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
15“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
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Notice

Moving from nation to nation leaves these few foreigners without a settled home, even after God has named the land he will give them.

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What stands out to you about God's promise of land preceding this account of movement?

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Where does your own lack of settledness make this movement between peoples feel familiar?

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Where else Scripture says this

3 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 12:9Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.Abram's continued travel toward the South shares the psalm's picture of movement before a settled home.
Genesis 12:10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.Abram's move into Egypt during famine gives a concrete instance of crossing into another nation and living as a foreigner.
Exodus 1:11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.The shared thread is life under other rulers; Exodus describes forced labor under Pharaoh, while the psalm describes movement between kingdoms.
Where this verse fits

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 105:11–15 and note what remains unsettled

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Encouragement

An unsettled life need not mean God has forgotten. These few foreigners moved between kingdoms while God's promise of an inheritance still stood.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).