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When God by his providence did allot the several parts of the world to several people, which was done Ge 10 Ge 11. See Deu_2:5,9 Am 9:7 Act_17:26,27.
Separated the sons of Adam, i.e. divided them in their languages and habitations according to their families.
He set the bounds of the people, i.e. he disposed of the several lands and limits of the people, so as he did reserve a convenient and sufficient place for the great numbers of the people of Israel, whom he designed to make as numerous as the stars of heaven. And therefore he so guided the hearts of several people, that the posterity of Canaan, which was accursed of God, Gen_9:25-27, and devoted to ruin, should be seated in that country which God intended for the children of Israel, that so when their iniquities were ripe, and God’s time came, they might be rooted out, and the Israelites might come in their stead.