He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations.
Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant:
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
When they went from one nation to another, from [one] kingdom to another people;
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
He sent a man before them, [even] Joseph, [who] was sold for a servant:
