10 Bible Verses about Dealing With The Nations

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

And let all kings bow down before him,
All nations serve him.

So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

They did not destroy the peoples,
As the Lord commanded them,

But they mingled with the nations
And learned their practices,

The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

‘Then nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

“And now many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes gloat over Zion.’

“Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.