Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

19. When ye were] Psalms cv. 12, When they were.

sojourners] The patriarchs were not simply strangers, but strangers who made a long sojourn in Canaan.

²⁰And they went about from nation to nation,

And from one kingdom to another people.

20. kingdom ... people] The “kingdom” is Egypt (Genesis xii.); the “people” the Canaanite and Perizzite (Genesis xiii.).

²¹He suffered no man to do them wrong;

Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

21. he reproved kings] Genesis xx. 37.

²²Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones,