'Nations' in the Bible

Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: 'If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.

There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.

Written in it were the following words: "Among the nations it is rumored (and Geshem has substantiated this) that you and the Jews have intentions of revolting, and for this reason you are building the wall. Furthermore, according to these rumors you are going to become their king.

When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!