11 Bible Verses about Relations With Foreigners

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1 Samuel 22:3

From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

1 Samuel 27:2

So David set out with his 600 men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

Luke 4:26

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them—but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Luke 4:27

And in the prophet Elisha’s time, there were many in Israel who had serious skin diseases, yet not one of them was healed —only Naaman the Syrian.”

Galatians 2:12

For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

Ezekiel 16:32

You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

Isaiah 2:6

For You have abandoned Your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of divination from the East
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines.
They are in league with foreigners.

Joshua 23:12

For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry or associate with them and they with you,

Hosea 7:8

Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.

Proverbs 5:10

strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

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