Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 32:8

8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance , when he separated the sons of Adam , he set the bounds of the people, according to the number of the children of Israel .

When God by his providence did allot the several parts of the world to several people, which was done Gen. 10. and 11. See Deut. 2. 5, 9. Amos 9. 7. Act. 17. 26, 27.

(i. e.) Divided them in their languages and habitations according to their families.

(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, 26, 27. and devoted to ruine should be seated in that country which God intended for the children of Israel, that so when their iniquities were ripe and Gods time came they might be rooted out, and the Israelites might come in their stead.

Marginal references: Zech. 9. 2▪ Act. 17. 26.; Heb. peoples.