14 Bible Verses about Foreigners Included Among The People
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For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will choose Israel again. He will settle them on their own land. The foreigner will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.
Foreigners will build up your walls,
and their kings will serve you.
Although I struck you in My wrath,
yet I will show mercy to you with My favor.
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,
and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
You have freed me from the feuds among my people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.
Foreigners lose heart
and come trembling from their fortifications.
And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord
minister to Him, love the name of Yahweh
and become His servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold firmly to My covenant—
Rejoice, you nations, concerning His people,
for He will avenge the blood of His servants.
He will take vengeance on His adversaries;
He will purify His land and His people.
You will allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners living among you, who have fathered children among you. You will treat them like native-born Israelites; along with you, they will be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,
“All of you are standing today before the Lord your God—your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,
Gather the people—men, women, children, and foreigners living within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and be careful to follow all the words of this law.
In whatever tribe the foreigner lives, you will assign his inheritance there.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Israel is swallowed up!
Now they are among the nations
like discarded pottery.
