60 occurrences

'People' in the Bible

The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsBrothers in law

The Lord was with Judah and enabled them to take possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the people who were living in the valley because those people had iron chariots.

Verse ConceptsChariotsIronWarfare, Examples OfNot Driving Them OutIron ObjectsGod Has Been With YouUnable To Expel

You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?

Verse ConceptsForbidden AlliancesAllegiancesDestruction Of Satan's WorksWhat Do You Do?

Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a trap for you.”

Verse ConceptsIrritationTrapNot Driving Them OutEvil TrappingNo Help In Other Gods

When the Angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects Of

Joshua sent the people away, and the Israelites went to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.

The people worshiped the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua. They had seen all the Lord’s great works He had done for Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness Of

Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for the Israelites, the Lord was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The Lord was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorCruelty, God's attitude toGrace, In OtSensitivitySympathyGod Saving From EnemiesGod With Specific PeopleGod Showed Mercy

When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he dismissed the people who had carried it.

Verse ConceptsSending people home

Sisera summoned all his 900 iron chariots and all the people who were with him from Harosheth of the Nations to the Wadi Kishon.

Verse ConceptsChariotsSeven To Nine HundredIron ObjectsRiver Kishon

My heart is with the leaders of Israel,with the volunteers of the people.Praise the Lord!

Verse ConceptsDeborahPeople WillingVolunteering

Let them tell the righteous acts of the Lord,the righteous deeds of His warriors in Israel,with the voices of the singers at the watering places.Then the Lord’s people went down to the gates.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfVoicesStanding In The Gateway

The survivors came down to the nobles;the Lord’s people came down to me with the warriors.

Verse ConceptsNoblesSurvivors Of The Nationsdominion

Those with their roots in Amalek came from Ephraim;Benjamin came with your people after you.The leaders came down from Machir,and those who carry a marshal’s staff came from Zebulun.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsRankRootsStaff

Zebulun was a people risking their lives,Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.

Verse ConceptsCourage, Examples OfLife DespisedRisking

The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to hand the Midianites over to you, or else Israel might brag: ‘I did it myself.’

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsNot Mearmygideon

Now announce in the presence of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So 22,000 of the people turned back, but 10,000 remained.

Verse ConceptsDesertionTens Of ThousandsTwenty Thousand And UpFear Of Enemies

Then the Lord said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. If I say to you, ‘This one can go with you,’ he can go. But if I say about anyone, ‘This one cannot go with you,’ he cannot go.”

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsSiftinggideon

So he brought the people down to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate everyone who laps water with his tongue like a dog. Do the same with everyone who kneels to drink.”

Verse ConceptsdogsTonguegroupsarmygideon

The number of those who lapped with their hands to their mouths was 300 men, and all the rest of the people knelt to drink water.

Verse ConceptsThree Hundred And Above

He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give some loaves of bread to the people who are following me, because they are exhausted, for I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Verse ConceptsFeeding Groups

The lords of Shechem rebelled against him by putting people on the tops of the mountains to ambush and rob everyone who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsAmbushRobbing PeopleTelling Of Happenings

If only these people were in my power, I would remove Abimelech.” So he said to Abimelech, “Gather your army and come out.”

Verse ConceptsHuman Authority, Nature Of

Now tonight, you and the people with you are to come wait in ambush in the countryside.

Then get up early, and at sunrise charge the city. When he and the people who are with him come out against you, do to him whatever you can.”

Verse ConceptsDawnMorningThe SunThose Who Rose Early

So Abimelech and all the people with him got up at night and waited in ambush for Shechem in four units.

Verse ConceptsFour Groups

Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate. Then Abimelech and the people who were with him got up from their ambush.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!” But Zebul said to him, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”

Verse ConceptsShadowsThings Like PeopleLike Men

Then Gaal spoke again, “Look, people are coming down from the central part of the land, and one unit is coming from the direction of the Diviners’ Oak.”

Verse ConceptsOaks

Zebul replied, “Where is your mouthing off now? You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Aren’t these the people you despised? Now go and fight them!”

Verse ConceptsBraggingBoasting ExcludedOther Unimportant People

The next day when the people went into the countryside, this was reported to Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

He took the people, divided them into three companies, and waited in ambush in the countryside. He looked, and the people were coming out of the city, so he arose against them and struck them down.

Verse ConceptsThree GroupsAmbush

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

Verse ConceptsConquestSournesssowing

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his ax in his hand and cut a branch from the trees. He picked up the branch, put it on his shoulder, and said to the people who were with him, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersAxesTools

Each person also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire around the people, and all the people in the Tower of Shechem died—about 1,000 men and women.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleBurning CitiesKilling Within IsraelPrivate Rooms

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead. The people put him over themselves as leader and commander, and Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the Lord at Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To PeopleLater Covenants With God

but Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. Instead, Sihon gathered all his people, camped at Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing People

Then the Lord God of Israel handed over Sihon and all his people to Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of the entire land of the Amorites who lived in that country.

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

“The Lord God of Israel has now driven out the Amorites before His people Israel, and will you now force us out?

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

Then Jephthah said to them, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites. So I called for you, but you didn’t deliver me from their power.

Verse ConceptsThose Not Saved

But his father and mother said to him, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife?”But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, because I want her.”

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBad Decision Making ExamplesMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningUncircumcisionInfatuationIntermarriageLeaving Parents For Spouse

So Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me and don’t love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven’t explained it to me.”“Look,” he said, “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

Verse ConceptsCryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and at last, on the seventh day, he explained it to her, because she had nagged him so much. Then she explained it to her people.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysGiving InformationDay 7People Mourning Catastrophenagging

When the people saw him, they praised their god and said:Our god has handed over to usour enemy who destroyed our landand who multiplied our dead.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForVictory, As An Act Of GodGiven Into One's Hands

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” He pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the leaders and all the people in it. And the dead he killed at his death were more than those he had killed in his life.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

The five men left and came to Laish. They saw that the people who were there were living securely, in the same way as the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. They were far from the Sidonians, having no alliance with anyone.

Verse ConceptsSearchingSecurityMannersMagistratesQuietnessFar From HereMen Of PeaceRelationships And Dating

When the men went back to their clans at Zorah and Eshtaol, their people asked them, “What did you find out?”

When you get there, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has handed it over to you. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsland

So the priest was pleased and took his ephod, household idols, and carved image, and went with the people.

Verse ConceptsRobbing Gods

After they had taken the gods Micah had made and the priest that belonged to him, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people. They killed them with their swords and burned down the city.

Verse ConceptsConflagrationsBurning CitiesMen Of Peace

The leaders of all the people and of all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 armed foot soldiers.

Verse ConceptsAssemblyThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

Then all the people stood united and said, “None of us will go to his tent or return to his house.

Verse ConceptsUnified People

We will take 10 men out of every 100 from all the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of every 1,000, and 1,000 out of every 10,000 to get provisions for the people when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for all the horror they did in Israel.”

Verse ConceptsA Tenth Of PeoplePeople Providing Food

Then the Benjaminites came out against the people and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about 30 men of Israel on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah through the open country.

Verse ConceptsThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They wept loudly and bitterly,

Verse ConceptsShrinesSittingVoicesWeepingAction Until Evening

The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsThose Who Rose Early

For when the people were counted, no one was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.

Verse ConceptsCensus

The people had compassion on Benjamin, because the Lord had made this gap in the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRegretting

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Citizenry (1 instance)
Commonwealth (2 instances)
Masses (21 instances)
Million (4 instances)
Multitude (361 instances)
Populate (4 instances)

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