11 Bible Verses about Relations With Foreigners

And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.

And David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

And Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, to a widow woman of Sidon.

And many lepers were in Israel near Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.

For before certain men came from James he ate together with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing men of circumcision.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,

A wife who commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

For thou have forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with things] from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines. And they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

Else if ye do at all go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you,

Ephraim, he mixes himself among the peoples. Ephraim is a cake not turned.

lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,