That ye were in that time without Christy alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners from the covenants of solemn promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

Scattered

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I drew out after you a sword: and your land was a desert, and your cities shall be a desolation.

And Jehovah scattered you among the peoples, and ye remained men of number among the nations where Jehovah will lead you there.

And Jehovah scattered thee among all peoples from the end of the earth even to the end of the earth; and thou servedst there other gods which thou knewest not, thou and thy fathers, wood and stone.

I have said I will blow them away, I will turn away their remembrance from man;

And Haman will say to king Ahasuerus, There is one people scattered and dispersed between the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws different from all people; they not doing the laws of the king: and it not being suitable to the king to suffer them.

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

And I left in being to you them escaping the sword among the nations, in my scattering you in the lands.

Then said the Jews among themselves, Where is he about to go, that we shall not find him? is he not about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

And not for the nation alone, but that also the children of God, scattered, should be gathered into one.

Truly therefore the dispersed passed through announcing good news the word.

James, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, health.

Pontus

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, circumspect men, from every nation of those under heaven.

And having found a certain Jew by name Aquila, a Pontian by birth, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife; (for Claudius had ordered all Jews to be separated from Rome:) came to them.

Galatia

And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, hindered by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia,

And having made a certain time, he came out, passing in order the Galatian country and Phrygia, supporting all the disciples.

And with me all the brethren, to the churches of Galatia:

Cappadocia

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and they dwelling in Mesopotamia, and Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,

Asia

And certain of them arose from the synagogue, called Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrian, and of them from Cilicia and Asia, seeking out with Stephen.

And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, hindered by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia,

And this was for two years: so that all dwelling in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

For Paul determined to sail to Ephesus, as it might not be to him to spend the time in Asia: for he hastened, if it were possible to him, to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the church at their house, greet you.

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of our pressure having been to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly loaded, above strength, so that we were in utter perplexity even to live:

Thou knowest this, that all they dwelling in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send to the seven churches which in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

Bithynia

Having come to Mysia, they tried to go to Bithynia: and the Spirit suffered them not.

General references

From beyond to the rivers of Cush incense, the daughter of my dispersed shall bring my gifts.