Psalms 78:55

78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;

he assigned them their tribal allotments

and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

Amos 7:17

7:17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets

and your sons and daughters will die violently.

Your land will be given to others

and you will die in a foreign land.

Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’”


tn Heb “he caused to fall [to] them with a measuring line an inheritance.”

tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”

tn Heb “in the city,” that is, “in public.”

tn Heb “will fall by the sword.”

tn Heb “will be divided up with a [surveyor’s] measuring line.”

tn Heb “[an] unclean”; or “[an] impure.” This fate would be especially humiliating for a priest, who was to distinguish between the ritually clean and unclean (see Lev 10:10).

tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.