Acts 13:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan - namely, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites" (Deuteronomy 7:1).

He divided their land to them by lot, х katekleeronomeesen (G2624); but the true rendering clearly is-onomeesen, used actively, as in Numbers 34:18, and 1 Kings 2:8: the sense is the same].

Acts 13:19

19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.