'Neighbors' in the Bible

Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

It came about at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were neighbors and that they were living within their land.

Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few.

Do not drag me away with the wickedAnd with those who work iniquity,Who speak peace with their neighbors,While evil is in their hearts.

Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach,Especially to my neighbors,And an object of dread to my acquaintances;Those who see me in the street flee from me.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors,A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors,A scoffing and derision to those around us.

And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosomThe reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,And our enemies laugh among themselves.

All who pass along the way plunder him;He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Thus says the Lord concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, “Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

because they have acted foolishly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken words in My name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who knows and am a witness,” declares the Lord.’”

“But I have stripped Esau bare,I have uncovered his hiding placesSo that he will not be able to conceal himself;His offspring has been destroyed along with his relativesAnd his neighbors, and he is no more.

Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says the Lord, “no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

“As when God overthrew SodomAnd Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the Lord,“No man will live there,Nor will any son of man reside in it.

You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.

“Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

“Woe to you who make your neighbors drink,Who mix in your venom even to make them drunkSo as to look on their nakedness!