11 Bible Verses about Relations With Foreigners

Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."

So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men.

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh's daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

"'Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.

But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,

Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.

lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.