45 occurrences

'People' in the Bible

The descendants of Hobab [the] Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the descendants of Judah from the city of palms [into] the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in [the] Negev [near] Arad. And they went and settled with the people.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsBrothers in law

And as the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the {Israelites}, the people {wept bitterly}.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects Of

And Joshua sent the people away, and the {Israelites} went each to their own inheritance to take possession of the land.

And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who saw all the great work Yahweh had done for Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness Of

They abandoned Yahweh the God of their ancestors, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. They {followed} other gods from the gods of the people who [were] around them; and they bowed down to them, and they provoked the anger of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRenunciationBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

{So the anger of Yahweh burned} against Israel, and he said, "Because this people transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors, and have not obeyed my voice,

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

Verse ConceptsSending people home

"When long hair hangs loosely in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless Yahweh!

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfPeople Going BeforePraise God For His BenefitsVolunteering

My heart [goes out] to the commanders of Israel, those offering themselves willingly among the people; bless Yahweh!

Verse ConceptsDeborahPeople WillingVolunteering

At the sound of [those] dividing [the sheep] among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfVoicesStanding In The Gateway

Then [the] remnant went down to [the] nobles; the people of Yahweh went down for him against [the] mighty.

Verse ConceptsNoblesSurvivors Of The Nationsdominion

Zebulun [is] a people who scorned death, and Naphtali, on the heights of [the] field.

Verse ConceptsCourage, Examples OfLife DespisedRisking

And whenever Israel sowed seed, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of [the] east would come up against them.

Verse ConceptsNomadsFarmingEnemy Attacksisraelsowing

Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of [the] east gathered together and crossed [the Jordan]; and they camped in the valley of Jezreel.

Verse ConceptseastValleys

Now [the] Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of [the] east [were] lying in the valley, like a great multitude of locusts; their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand that [is] on the shore of the sea.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsLocustsSandCamelsMany CreaturesSand And Gravel

He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who [are] {following me}, for they [are] weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."

Verse ConceptsFeeding Groups

Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men remained from the entire army of the people of [the] east; those that fell [in battle were] one hundred and twenty thousand {swordsmen}.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen ThousandOne Hundred Thousand And MoreSurvivors Of The Nations

If only this people {were in my command}! Then I would remove Abimelech, and I would have said, 'Increase your army and come out!'"

Verse ConceptsHuman Authority, Nature Of

When Gaal saw the army, he said to Zebul, "Look, people [are] coming down from the top of the mountains!" And Zebul said to him, "{The shadows of the mountains look like people to you}."

Verse ConceptsShadowsThings Like PeopleLike Men

{And Gaal spoke again} and said, "Look, people [are] coming down from Tabbur-erez, and one division [is] coming from the direction of Elon-meonenim."

Verse ConceptsOaks

On the next day the people went out [to] the field; and it was reported to Abimelech,

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

so he took the army and divided them into three divisions, and he laid an ambush in the field. And he saw the people [were] coming out from the city, and he arose against them and killed them.

Verse ConceptsThree GroupsAmbush

Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people that [were] in it; then he broke down the city and sowed it [with] salt.

Verse ConceptsConquestSournesssowing

The people, the ones commanding Gilead, {said to each other}, "Who [is] the man that will begin to fight against the {Ammonites}? He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightFighting EnemiesCompetition

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh at Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To PeopleLater Covenants With God

But Sihon did not trust Israel to cross through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people and then encamped at Jahaz; and he made war with Israel.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing People

And Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; and Israel occupied all the land of the Amorites inhabiting that land.

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So then Yahweh, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before his people Israel, and you want to possess it?

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were engaged in great conflict with the {Ammonites}; I called you, but you did not deliver me from their hand.

Verse ConceptsThose Not Saved

But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a wife among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must take a wife from [the] uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Take her for me because {she pleases me}."

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

And Samson's wife wept before him, and she said, "You must hate me; you do not love me. You told the riddle to {my people}, but you have not explained [it] to me." He said to her, "I have not explained [it] to my father and mother. [Why] should I explain it to you?"

Verse ConceptsCryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

She wept before him the seven days of their feast; and it happened, because she nagged him, on the seventh day he explained [it] to her, and she told the riddle to {her people}.

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

And the people saw him, and they praised their god, for they said, "Our god has given into our hand those who hate us, devastate our land, and have {killed many of us}."

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

And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." And he pushed with [all his] strength, and the house fell on the rulers and all of the people who [were] with him. And the dead whom he killed in his death were more than those he killed in his life.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

And the five men went and came to Laish, and they observed the people who [were] living according to the customs of [the] Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, and lacking nothing in the land, and possessing restraint. And they [were] far from [the] Sidonians and had no word with anyone.

Verse ConceptsSearchingSecurityMannersMagistratesQuietnessFar From HereMen Of PeaceRelationships And Dating

When you go you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land {is spread out on all sides}; God has given a place into your hands where there is no lack of anything that [is] on the earth."

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsland

{The priest accepted the offer}, and he took the ephod, teraphim, and molten image and went along with the people.

Verse ConceptsRobbing Gods

And they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and {they put them to the sword} and burned the city with fire.

Verse ConceptsConflagrationsBurning CitiesMen Of Peace

Then behold, an old man [was] coming from his work from the field in the evening, and the man [was] from the hill country of Ephraim, and he [was] dwelling as a foreigner in Gibeah. (The people of the place [were] descendants of Benjamin.)

Verse ConceptsEveningMen Working

And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand sword-bearing infantry.

Verse ConceptsAssemblyThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

All the people got up as one body, saying, "Not one of us will go to his tent, or will any of us return to his house.

Verse ConceptsUnified People

And the people of Bethel came and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted their voices and {wept bitterly}.

Verse ConceptsShrinesSittingVoicesWeepingAction Until Evening

On the next day the people rose early, and they built there an altar and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsThose Who Rose Early

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

Verse ConceptsCensus

And the people felt sorry for Benjamin because {Yahweh weakened 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)