11 Bible Verses about Relations With Foreigners

And David goeth thence to Mizpeh of Moab, and saith unto the king of Moab, 'Let, I pray thee, my father and my mother go out with you, till that I know what God doth for me;'

And David riseth, and passeth over, he and six hundred men who are with him, unto Achish son of Maoch king of Gath;

and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but -- to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a woman, a widow;

and many lepers were in the time of Elisha the prophet, in Israel, and none of them was cleansed, but -- Naaman the Syrian.'

for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, and of the Hittites,

The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And are sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.

But -- if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,

Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.

Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,