29 occurrences

'Aliens' in the Bible

And he said to Abram, "{You must surely know} that your descendants shall be [as] aliens in a land {not their own}. And they shall serve them and they shall oppress them four hundred years.

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature Of100 Years And MoreSojourningSure KnowledgeThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelDescendants ofslaveryoppression

And Jacob came to Isaac his father [at] Mamre, [or] Kiriath-Arba (that [is], Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac dwelled as aliens.

Verse ConceptsSojourning

And I not only established my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they dwelt as aliens,

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftSojourningGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsAlienscovenant

And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for you and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents who are dwelling as aliens with you;

Verse ConceptsHiringStrangers

And you may buy also from the children of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed, they may be as property for you.

Verse ConceptsForeignersMaking SlavesLaws Restricting ForeignersPropertyImmigrantsAliens

"You shall not exploit a hired worker, [who is] needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from [among] your aliens who are in your land [and] in your {towns}.

Verse ConceptsThe NeedyAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstMastersUnkindnessEmployersMasters Duties Towards ServantsAdvantagesForeigners Included In The LawNot Helping The PoorAliens

your little children, your women and your aliens who [are] in the midst of your camp, from the choppers of your wood to the drawers of your water,

Verse ConceptsDrawing WaterFirewoodAliens

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your {towns}, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and {they shall diligently observe} all the words of this law.

Verse ConceptsForeignersCovenant breakersdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleMale And FemaleOutsidersAliens, Believers DutyAssembling IsraelForeigners Included Among The PeopleKeep The Commandments!Aliens

The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day.

And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who [were] in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSkillStonesStoneworkImmigrantsAliens

Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned [with] fire; [As for] your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, like devastation [by] foreigners.

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

Let my outcasts [of] Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from [the] presence of [the] destroyer." When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, [the] {one who tramples has} disappeared from the land,

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "My people went down [to] Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him {without cause}.

Verse ConceptsBeginningOppression, Nature Of

And you shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant a vineyard, and it shall not be for you, but in tents you shall live all your days, so that you may live many days on the surface of the land where you [are] dwelling as aliens.'

Verse ConceptsTentsPlanting VineyardsNot SowingHow To Live Long

then {therefore} hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "{If you are determined} to go [to] Egypt, and you go to dwell as aliens there,

So all the people who {are determined} to go [to] Egypt to dwell as aliens there will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, and there will not be for them an escapee or a survivor from the disaster that I [am] bringing upon them."

Verse ConceptsPestilenceNo SurvivorsFamine Killing

Now then, certainly you must know that by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague you will die in the place where you desire to go, to dwell as aliens there."

Verse ConceptsHow Death Is InevitableFamine Killing

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the insolent men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You [are] telling a lie! Yahweh our God did not send you, {saying}, 'You must not go [to] Egypt to dwell as aliens there.'

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfPride, Results OfPride, Results InProphesying Lies

But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations [to] which they had been scattered to dwell as aliens in the land of Judah--

Verse ConceptsRemnantThose who returned from exile

provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, to make smoke offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you [have] come to dwell as aliens, so as to cut off yourselves, and so that you are becoming as a curse, and as a disgrace among all the nations of the earth?

Verse ConceptsDifferent Gods

And I will take [away] the remnant of Judah {who are determined} to come [to] the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there, and everyone will perish. They will fall in the land of Egypt by the sword; they will perish by the famine, from [the] smallest to [the] greatest. By the sword and by the famine they will die and become as a curse, as a horror, and as a curse, and as a disgrace.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordFamine KillingMade A Horror

And [the] survivors of [the] sword will return from the land of Egypt [to] the land of Judah {few in number}. And all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there will know whose word will endure, from me or from them.

Verse ConceptsKnowingFew People

And I will purge the rebels from [among] you and the [ones] transgressing against me; I will bring them out from the land {where they are living as aliens}, but into the land of Israel they will not come, and [then] you will know that I [am] Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodPurgingEntering The KingdomBeing Cleansed From Sin

And then you shall allocate it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens dwelling as aliens in the midst of you who have children in the midst of you, and [so] they shall be to you [just] like full citizens among the {Israelites}. With you they shall be allotted with an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelAliens

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Alienate (4 instances)
Stranger (157 instances)
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