who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said, ‘Why were the nations insolent, And the peoples plotting in vain?

Our fathers in turn received it, and they also brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations that God drove out from our fathers, until the time of David.

When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took about 450 years.

In past generations He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;