21 Thou didst also feed them forty years in the wilderness: they lacked nothing: (A)their clothes waxed not old, and their feet [a]swelled not.

22 And thou gavest them kingdoms and people, and [b]scatteredst them into corners: so they possessed (B)the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

23 And thou didst multiply their children like the stars of the heaven, and broughtest them into the land, whereof thou hadst spoken unto their fathers, that they should go, and possess it.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:21 Though the way was tedious and long.
  2. Nehemiah 9:22 Meaning, the heathen whom he drove out.

21 For forty years(A) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,(B) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.(C)

22 “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon[a](D) king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.(E) 23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,(F) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:22 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Sihon, that is, the country of the