29 Bible Verses about Strangers in israel

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Genesis 15:13

And he said unto Abram, "Know this of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that pertaineth not unto them. And they shall make bondmen of them and entreat them evil, four hundred years.

Exodus 12:48

If a stranger dwell among you, and will hold Passover unto the LORD, let him circumcise all that be males, and then let him come and observe it, and be taken as one that is born in the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

Leviticus 24:22

Ye shall have one manner of law among you: even for the stranger as well as for one of yourselves, for I am the LORD your God."

Deuteronomy 23:7

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: neither shalt thou abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Leviticus 23:22

"'When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean riddance of thy field, neither shalt thou make any after gathering of thy harvest: but shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.'"

Ezekiel 47:22

and divide it to be a heritage for you, and for the strangers that dwell among you, and begotten children. For ye shall take them among the children of Israel, like as though they were of your own household and country, and they shall have heritage with you among the children of Israel.

Isaiah 61:5

Strangers shall stand and feed your cattle, and the Aliens shall be your plowmen and reapers.

Isaiah 1:7

Your land lieth waste, your cities are burnt up, your enemies devour your land, and ye must be fain to stand, and look upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in a battle.

Deuteronomy 17:15

Then thou shalt make him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose. One of thy brethren must thou make king over thee, and mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not of thy brethren.

Exodus 12:49

One manner of law shall be unto them that are born in the land, and unto the strangers that dwell among you."

Ezekiel 44:9

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Of all the strangers that dwell among the children of Israel, no stranger, whose heart and flesh is not circumcised, shall come within my Sanctuary:

Acts 7:6

God verily spake on this wise, that this seed should be a dweller in a strange land, and that they should keep them in bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

2 Chronicles 6:32

Thereto, a stranger which is not of thy people Israel, if he come from a far land for thy great name's sake and thy mighty hand and stretched out arm, and therefore come and pray at this house;

Isaiah 14:2

The people shall take them, and carry them home to their own land. And the house of Israel shall have them in possession for servants and maidens in the land of the LORD. They shall take those prisoners, whose captives they had been afore: and rule those that had oppressed them.

Leviticus 17:10

And whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will destroy him from among his people,

Numbers 15:29

And both thou that art born one of the children of Israel and the stranger that dwelleth among you shall have both one law, if ye sin through ignorance.

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, neither thy manservant nor thy maidservant, neither thy cattle neither yet the stranger that is within thy gates.

Leviticus 17:8

"And thou shalt say unto them, 'Whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that offereth a burnt offering or any other offering,

Isaiah 56:6

Again, he sayeth unto the strangers that are disposed to stick to the LORD, to serve him, and to Love his name: That they shall be no bondman. And all they, which keep themselves, that they unhallow not the Sabbath - namely, that they fulfill my covenant -

Acts 13:17

The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a mighty arm brought them out of it.

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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To participate in the rejoicings of the people

Deuteronomy 14:29

and the Levite shall come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are within thy city, and shall eat and fill themselves: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.

Deuteronomy 16:11

And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.

Deuteronomy 26:11

and rejoice over all the good things which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee and unto thine house, both thou the Levite and the stranger that is among you.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the gleaning of the harvest

Leviticus 19:10

Thou shalt not pluck in all thy vineyard clean, neither gather in the grapes that are overscaped. But thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 23:22

"'When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean riddance of thy field, neither shalt thou make any after gathering of thy harvest: but shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.'"

Deuteronomy 24:19-22

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again and fetch it: But it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand. When thou beatest down thine olive trees thou shalt not make clean riddance after thee: but it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And when thou gatherest thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather clean after thee: but it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. read more.
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt: wherefore I command thee to do this thing.

Strangers in israel » Admitted to worship in the outer court of the temple

Revelation 11:2

but the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is given unto the gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty two months.

1 Kings 8:41-43

And likewise, if a stranger that is not of thy people Israel come out of a far country for thy name's sake - for they shall hear of thy great name and of thy mighty hand and stretched-out arm - and therefore if he come and pray at this place, hear thou up to heaven thy dwelling place and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all nations of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee as do thy people Israel, and that it may be known that this house which I have built is called after thy name.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Might offer their burnt-offerings on the altar of God

Leviticus 17:8

"And thou shalt say unto them, 'Whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that offereth a burnt offering or any other offering,

Leviticus 22:18

"Speak unto Aaron and his sons and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel or stranger in Israel that will offer his offering: whatsoever vow or freewill offering it be which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering to reconcile them selves,

Numbers 15:14

And if there be a stranger with you or be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: even as ye do, so he shall do.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to work on the sabbath

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, neither thy manservant nor thy maidservant, neither thy cattle neither yet the stranger that is within thy gates.

Exodus 23:12

Six days thou shalt do thy work and the seventh day thou shalt keep holy day, that thine ox and thine ass may rest and the son of thy maid and the stranger may be refreshed.

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy servant, nor thy maid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy city, that thy servant and thy maid may rest as well as thou.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to be vexed or oppressed

Strangers in israel » The jews condemned for oppressing

Strangers in israel » Were frequently employed in public works

1 Chronicles 22:2

And David commanded to gather the strangers that were in the land of Israel, and set hewers to hew stone, to build the house of God.

2 Chronicles 2:18

And he set eighty thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to courage and to set the people a work.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have justice done to them in all disputes

Deuteronomy 1:16

And I charged your judges the same time, saying, 'Hear your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To be loved

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them

Deuteronomy 31:12

Gather the people together: both men, women and children and the strangers that are in thy cities, that they may hear, learn and fear the LORD your God, and be diligent to keep all the words of this law,

Joshua 8:32-35

And he wrote there, upon the stones, the second law of Moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. And all Israel and the elders thereof, and their officers and judges, stood part on this side the ark, and part on that side, before the priests: that were Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD - as well the stranger, as they that were born among them: half of them on the forefront of the Mount of Gerizim, and half of them on the forefront of mount Ebal: as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, first to bless the people of Israel. And after that he read all the words of the law, both the blessing and cursing, according to all that is written in the book of the law - read more.
so that there was not one word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not - before all the congregation of Israel, with women and children and the strangers that were among them.

Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » The remnant of the nations of the land

2 Chronicles 8:7

And all the people that were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perezites, Hivites and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel -

1 Kings 9:20

And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

Strangers in israel » Under the care and protection of God

Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Persons who sought employment among the jews

1 Kings 9:27

And Hiram sent by ship also of his servants, that were shipmen and expert in the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Kings 7:13

And king Solomon sent and fetched one Hiram out of Tyre,

Strangers in israel » Motives urged on the jews for being kind to

Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Foreign servants

Leviticus 25:44-45

"'If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you, and of the children of the strangers that are sojourners among you, and of their generations that are with you, which they begat in your land.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Might purchase hebrew servants subject to release

Leviticus 25:47-48

"'When a stranger and a sojourner waxeth rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him waxeth poor and sell himself unto the stranger that dwelleth by thee or to any of the stranger's kin: after that he is sold he may be redeemed again: one of his brethren may buy him out;

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » The jews might purchase and have them as slaves

Leviticus 25:44-45

"'If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you, and of the children of the strangers that are sojourners among you, and of their generations that are with you, which they begat in your land.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to eat blood

Leviticus 17:10-12

And whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will destroy him from among his people, for the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it unto you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls, for blood shall make an atonement for the soul. And therefore I said unto the children of Israel: See that no soul of you eat blood, nor yet any stranger that sojourneth among you.

Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Captives taken in war

Deuteronomy 21:10

When thou goest to war against thine enemies and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands and thou hast taken them captive,

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to be chosen as kings in israel

Deuteronomy 17:15

Then thou shalt make him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose. One of thy brethren must thou make king over thee, and mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not of thy brethren.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Allowed to eat what died of itself

Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall eat of nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayest sell it unto an Alien. For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » The jews might take usury from

Deuteronomy 23:20

Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury, but not unto thy brother, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to conquer it.

Strangers in israel » Very numerous in solomon's reign

2 Chronicles 2:17

And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the time his father David had numbered them. And they were found a hundred and eighty thousand and six hundred.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to eat the passover while uncircumcised

Exodus 12:43-44

And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, "This is the manner of Passover: there shall no stranger eat thereof, but all the servants that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat thereof.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To be relieved in distress

Leviticus 25:35

"'If thy brother be waxed poor and fallen in decay with thee, receive him as a stranger or a sojourner, and let him live by thee.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Subject to the civil law

Leviticus 24:22

Ye shall have one manner of law among you: even for the stranger as well as for one of yourselves, for I am the LORD your God."

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to blaspheme God

Leviticus 24:16

And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall die for it: all the multitude shall stone him to death. And the stranger as well as the Israelite if he curse the name, shall die for it.'

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to practice idolatrous rites

Leviticus 20:2

"Tell the children of Israel, whosoever he be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that dwell in Israel that giveth of his seed unto Moloch, he shall die for it: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To enjoy the benefit of the cities of refuge

Numbers 35:15

And these six free cities shall be for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for him that dwelleth among you, that all they which kill any person unawares, may flee thither.

Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Persons who came into israel for the sake of religious privileges

1 Kings 8:41

And likewise, if a stranger that is not of thy people Israel come out of a far country for thy name's sake

Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » The remnant of the mixed multitude who came out of egypt

Exodus 12:38

And much common people went also with them, and sheep, and oxen, and cattle exceeding much.

Strangers in israel » All foreigners sojourning in israel were counted as

Exodus 12:49

One manner of law shall be unto them that are born in the land, and unto the strangers that dwell among you."

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