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And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerMiracles, Nature OfNationalismUnique Israel

And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel; when he comes from a far country because of the glory of your name:

Verse ConceptsForeigners

If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceImperfection, Influence OfSin, Universality OfSinnersWeights And Measures, DistancesAll Have SinnedWill God Be Angry?Missing The Mark

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

Verse ConceptsKingsSolomon, Character OfTemptation, Universality OfYielding To TemptationRelations With ForeignersMen And Women Who LovedWoman's Placerehabilitation

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered AmissServing One's Own Gods

And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, 'Lo, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from thee concerning her son, for he is sick; thus and thus thou dost speak unto her, and it cometh to pass at her coming in, that she is making herself strange.'

Verse ConceptsPretendingTelling Of Movements

And it cometh to pass, at Ahijah's hearing the sound of her feet as she came in to the opening, that he saith, 'Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why is this -- thou art making thyself strange? and I am sent unto thee with a sharp thing:

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers

When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

Verse ConceptsForeignersCymbals

And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSkillStonesStoneworkImmigrantsAliens

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

Verse ConceptsForeignersBeing A PilgrimHope, Results Of Its AbsenceLife, HumanPhysical LifePessimismPassing ThroughShadowsYear Of JubileeLife, Brevity OfPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfImmigrantsAliens

Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

Verse ConceptsOne Hundred Thousand And More

And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel but comes from a far country because of the glory of your name and your strong hand and your outstretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfForeignersArmsHand Of GodStrangers in israelAliens

and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And he removed the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

Verse ConceptsReformationBuilding AltarsDestruction Of Satan's Works

And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGoatsThe Number TwelveSacrifice, In OtSin OfferingThe Number NinetyTwelve TribesTwelve AnimalsSeventiesNinetiesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodOptimismParticipation, In SinUnfaithfulness, To God

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toGuilt

Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

Verse ConceptsMarriages, Believers With UnbelieversParticipation, In SinFellowship With WickedSeparation From Evil PeopleSin ConfessedActual Divorces

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Verse ConceptsJudgesTownGod Will No More Be Angry

And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Verse ConceptsInterracial MarriageMarriage Between Man And Woman

and separated the seed of Israel from all the strange children and stood and acknowledged their sins, and the wickedness of their fathers,

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Believer's Relation ToForeignersWorship, Elements OfSeparation From Evil PeopleAvoiding ForeignersSin Confessedconfessing

By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel -- even him did the strange women cause to sin.

Verse ConceptsBacksliding, Israel ExanplesSolomon, Character OfUnique Individuals

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To God

So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

Verse ConceptsAvoiding ForeignersAssignment

The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa. And while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was perplexed [by the unusual and alarming decree].

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfPuzzlement

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

Verse ConceptsOrphansGamblingBarteringTaking AdvantageFriends Failing

For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Foreigners

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

Verse ConceptsTen TimesWronging Other People

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

Verse ConceptsFamily And Friends

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

Verse ConceptsGuestsReckoned As Foreigners

My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb.

Verse ConceptsOffencePeople Being Hatedreuniting

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman Desiresmyself

With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.

Verse ConceptsFeetSwinging

Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Verse ConceptsPunishment of the The Wicked


“Will you have faith and depend on him to return your grain
And gather it from your threshing floor?

Verse ConceptsdistrustThreshing Floor

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me, but the strange children dissemble with me. {TYNDALE: And the aliens crouched unto me, and obeyed me at a word.}

Verse ConceptsForeignersObedience To GodPretendingObeying People

The strange children shall fail, and be afraid out of their prisons. {TYNDALE: And the aliens that shrink away shall tremble for fear in their defended places.}

Verse ConceptsForeignersHeart, HumanHuman EmotionGroups TremblingForeigners Included Among The PeopleBeing Scared

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's Thingslukewarm

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureNot Knowing People

I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.

Verse ConceptsPilgrimsReckoned As ForeignersGod's Things Concealed

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

Verse ConceptsSongsSaints, As PilgrimsMetaphorical Housesstatues

How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

Verse ConceptsJudaismForeign Things

Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

Verse ConceptsForeignersRescueGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched OutAvoiding ForeignersSwamped

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

Verse ConceptsForeignersenemies, of believersDeceitful TonguesWhat Foreigners Are LikeAvoiding ForeignersEvil For The Right HandThose Who Are LiarsAliensLying And Deceit

For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Verse ConceptsLipsMouthsPersuasionEleganceadultry

For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

Verse ConceptsReputationVigourEthicsLosing Someonedignity

And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

Verse ConceptsForeignersLimitations Of StrengthRelations With ForeignersHard WorkFinancesAliensWomen's Strength

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Verse ConceptsInfatuationAvoid Adultery

They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsTongueEleganceThe TongueWomen's Beauty

So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyBeing In DebtPledgesSafetySecurityDebtLosing A FriendLosing FriendsProtecting Your FamilyProtection From Danger

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

Verse ConceptsNature Of The HeartFamily ProblemsBitternessGrateful HeartA Broken Heartcancergrieving

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

Verse ConceptsCommendationBraggingCommending OneselfLoving YourselfBeing YourselfBoasting

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourSuffering From ForeignersGod Gives WealthTragedyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingscatspossessionsempowerment

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPeace, Human Destruction OfPoverty, Causes OfDestruction Of CountriesBurning CitiesSuffering From ForeignersStrangers in israelAliens

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning FriendsAbandonmentDivination, Practiced ByJacob, The PatriarchPagansSyncretismOut Of The EastRelations With ForeignersAliens

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

And he shall give a token unto a strange people, and call unto them in a far country: and behold, they shall come hastily with speed.

Verse ConceptsBanner, Figurative UseSpeedFlagsWhistlingFar From HerePeople From Far Away

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfForeignerselection, privileges ofChoicesLand, As A Divine GiftLand, Spiritual Aspects OfParticipation, In ChristUnity, God's Goal OfAliens, Believers DutyForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Will Show MercyFamily UnityStrangers in israelAliensisrael

For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.

Verse ConceptsFortressesGod, The RockRocksMetaphorical Plantingmindfulness

sends couriers by sea,
in reed vessels on the waters.


Go, swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,
whose land is divided by rivers.

Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

At that time a gift will be brought to Yahweh of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared far and near, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the name of Yahweh of Hosts.

Verse ConceptsGiftsGiving To GodDivision Of WatersTall PeopleWaters DividingFearing Other PeopleAmerica

For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingWhat God Does

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligencePhilosophyReasonShrewdnessThoughtWisdom, Source Of HumanInventionsFalse WisdomWorldly WisdomDiscernment

Thou shalt not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that thou canst not comprehend, of a strange tongue that thou canst not understand.

Verse ConceptsNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesSpeech Impediments

There shall strange visures and monstrous beasts meet one another, and the wild keep company together. There shall the llama lie, and have her lodging.

Verse ConceptsOwlsWolvesWild GoatProvision Of Nightcatsvampires

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesdecisionsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfWalking In DarknessPaths Of BelieversStraight ThingsLight Of God's PeopleNot Knowing WhereDarknessBlindnessguidancePathscredibility

I myself declared and saved, and I {proclaimed}. And there was no {strange god} among you. And you [are] my witnesses," {declares} Yahweh, "and I [am] God.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsI Am The Lord

And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.

And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnited With GodForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfForeignersReinstatementServanthood, In SocietyAnger Of God, Saved FromDivine FavourForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Showed MercyAliensFavorrebuilding

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

Verse ConceptsForeignersVineyardForeigners Included Among The PeopleStock KeepingStrangers in israelAliens

The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:

Verse ConceptsForeignersHandsOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtRight Hand Of GodForeigners SubduedGod Feeds All The EarthOvercoming EnemiesAliensSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

When thou wroughtest wondrous strange works, we looked not for them: thou camest down and the hills melted at thy presence.

Verse ConceptsMountains QuakingGod Going DownLack Of Expectation

And through them shall I declare my judgment, upon all the wickedness of those men that have forsaken me: that have offered unto strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeForsaking GodMonotheismRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodIdol WorshipDifferent GodsIdolatry

And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?

Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRejection Of God, Results OfVines

Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

Verse ConceptsHopelessnessDebaucheryEvil AssociationsWithout Hope

Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelSin, Nature OfAcknowledge, SinSin ConfessedWorship At TreesRebellion against GodGuilt

See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesPeople From Far AwayNations Attacking Israel

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say to them, As ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForsaking GodRenunciationUnfaithfulness, To GodIdolatry Consists OfSuffering From ForeignersNo Earthly InheritanceServing GroupsWhy Does God Do This?

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature OfWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersDifferent GodsDo Not MurderPenalties For Serving Other Gods

Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

Verse ConceptsAdulterersBaal Worship, HistoryBaal Worship, Nature OfUnknown GodsSwearing Oaths FalselyDifferent GodsAvoid AdulteryDo Not StealJudged As MurderersThose Who Committed Adulteryadultry