In line with the outworking of his purpose, occasionally God determined national frontiers and at what point in time a certain nation would predominate locally or as a world power.
इनमें से कुछ जातियाँ दूसरी जातियों को हराकर क्षेत्रीय शक्‍तियाँ बन गयीं, यहाँ तक कि विश्‍व - शक्‍तियाँ बन गयीं । — उत्पत्ति १०: ३२.