Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

The

1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
Acts 2:5
Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Ephesians 2:12
that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.
Hebrews 11:13
All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

Scattered

Leviticus 26:33
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Deuteronomy 4:27
And LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations where LORD shall lead you away.
Deuteronomy 28:64
And LORD will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. And there thou shall serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
Esther 3:8
And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people, nor do they keep the king's
Psalm 44:11
Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Ezekiel 6:8
Yet I will leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some who escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
John 7:35
The Jews therefore said among themselves, Where is this man going to go that we will not find him? Is he going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
John 11:52
And not for the nation only, but also that he might gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Acts 8:4
Indeed therefore those who were scattered abroad passed through proclaiming the good-news, the word.
James 1:1
James, a bondman of God and of Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting.

Pontus

Acts 2:5
Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Acts 18:2
And having found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by origin, who recently came from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because Claudius arranged for all the Jews to separate from Rome, he came to them.

Galatia

Acts 16:6
But having passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
Acts 18:23
And after spending some time, he departed, passing through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, successively, strengthening all the disciples.
Galatians 1:2
and all the brothers with me, to the congregations of Galatia:

Cappadocia

Acts 2:9
Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, and Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Asia

Acts 6:9
But some of those from the synagogue called Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up disputing with Stephen.
Acts 16:6
But having passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,
Acts 19:10
And this happened for two years, so as for all those dwelling in Asia to hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Acts 20:16
For Paul determined to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not happen to lose time in Asia. For he was hastening, if it were possible, for him to become at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
1 Corinthians 16:19
The congregations of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in Lord, with the congregation associated with their house.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.
2 Timothy 1:15
This thou know, that all those in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
Revelation 1:11
saying, What thou see, write in a book and send to the seven congregations: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Bithynia

Acts 16:7
having come toward Mysia, they attempted to go toward Bithynia. And the Spirit did not allow them.

General references

Zephaniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring my offering.