93 occurrences

'People' in the Bible

and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling IsraelMonth 2Family First

"Now those who will be camping on the east, toward the sunrise, are the divisions of the camp of Judah under their standard. The leader of the people of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Verse ConceptseastFlagsPeople Of Judah

Those who will be camping next to them are the tribe of Issachar. The leader of the people of Issachar is Nethanel son of Zuar.

Next will be the tribe of Zebulun. The leader of the people of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon.

"On the south will be the divisions of the camp of Reuben under their standard. The leader of the people of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur.

Verse ConceptsFlags

Those who will be camping next to them are the tribe of Simeon. The leader of the people of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

Next will be the tribe of Gad. The leader of the people of Gad is Eliasaph son of Deuel.

"On the west will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Amihud.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelWest SidesFlags

Next to them will be the tribe of Manasseh. The leader of the people of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

Next will be the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the people of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni.

"On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan, under their standards. The leader of the people of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelFlags

Those who will be camping next to them are the tribe of Asher. The leader of the people of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran.

Next will be the tribe of Naphtali. The leader of the people of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan.

"Tell the Israelites, 'When a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit, thereby breaking faith with the Lord, and that person is found guilty,

Verse ConceptsMan And Woman

Then the priest will put the woman under the oath of the curse and will say to the her, "The Lord make you an attested curse among your people, if the Lord makes your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

Verse ConceptsWasteThighsSwellingPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness -- her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

But the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people. Because he did not bring the Lord's offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessThose To Be Cut Off From Israelconsequences

When the people complained, it displeased the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

Verse ConceptsBalaams Donkeydoubt, results ofFireGrudgesHearingProvoking GodResentment, Against GodAnger Of God, Examples OfDivine DispleasureDispleasureComplaintsFire From HeavenGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Will Be AngryProblem PeopleComplaining

When the people cried to Moses, he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out.

Verse ConceptsQuenchingExtinguishingPraying For SinnersGod's Intervention

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.

Verse ConceptsTentsGod Will Be AngryMourning In RegretNot Pleasing People

And Moses said to the Lord, "Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

Verse ConceptsHeavy BurdensNot Pleasing God

Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,' to the land which you swore to their fathers?

Verse ConceptsArmsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfNursesThe Promise Of A Baby

From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, 'Give us meat, that we may eat!'

Verse ConceptsMourning In RegretEating Meat

I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

Verse ConceptsLonelinessNot AloneNot Being Alone

The Lord said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.

Verse ConceptsSeventiesLeadersIdentityResponsibilityThe Elderlyeldersorganizationgathering

Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.

Verse ConceptsSharing BurdensNot Aloneorganization

"And say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?" Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.

Verse ConceptsMaking People HolyEating Meat

Moses said, "The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.'

Verse ConceptsSkepticismThree To Nine Hundred ThousandOne Month

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsSeventies

Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!"

Verse ConceptsThose Jealous For People

And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

Verse ConceptsGluttonyExcessWeights And Measures, DryGathering FoodLabour Day And Night

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

Verse ConceptsTeethAt The Same Time

So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

Verse ConceptsBurying placesGreed

The people traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah to Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.

So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessStaying Put

After that the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, Specific

and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalDealing With Many PeopleWhat Is This?Strong Nations

Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, "Let us go up and occupy it, for we are well able to conquer it."

Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfHesitationManlinessPeople OvercomingOvercomingOvercoming Obstaclesexploring

But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!"

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofBad Decision Making ExamplesStrong NationsUnable To Expel

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, "The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.

Verse ConceptsBad Newsdoubt, results ofGiantsexploring

Then all the community raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.

Verse ConceptsVoicesWeepingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

Only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!"

Verse ConceptsImmanuelRebellion, Against GodRebellion Against God, Nature OfGod With YouEasy For PeopleUnguardedDo Not Fear MenRebellion against GodProtection From EnemiesRemoving People From Your Life

The Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Warnings AgainstMiracles, Responses ToQuestionsUnbelieversNot Believing SignsBefore People ActDoubting God

Moses said to the Lord, "When the Egyptians hear it -- for you brought up this people by your power from among them --

Verse ConceptsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyProtection Day And NightBeing Face To Face With GodObelisksGod Going BeforeGod Appearing In FireHearing About GodGiving InformationGod Is Among You

If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,

Verse ConceptsFameGod Might Kill His People

Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.'

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod KillingGod Killed His People

Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now."

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod Forgive!Love And Forgivenessgreatness

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorTen TimesTesting GodNot Believing Signs

When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessAngst

And the whole community of the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them will be forgiven, since all the people were involved in the unintentional offense.

Verse ConceptsForeigners Included In The Law

"'But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the Lord. That person must be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentdefianceHell, As Incentive To ActionIrreverencePresumptionExcommunicationInfidelity To GodMan's PurposesDeath Penalty For ViolenceThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?"

Verse ConceptsSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedWill God Be Angry?venting

But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the Lord's people!"

Verse ConceptsDiscontentGrumbling At PeopleJudged As MurderersComplaining

So Aaron did as Moses commanded and ran into the middle of the assembly, where the plague was just beginning among the people. So he placed incense on the coals and made atonement for the people.

Verse ConceptsAtonementIndividuals Running

Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen ThousandDeath As Punishment

Then a ceremonially clean person must take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all its furnishings, and on the people who were there, or on the one who touched a bone, or one killed, or one who died, or a grave.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling Water

Then the entire community of Israel entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfAaron, Sins OfWilderness Of ZinMonth 1

The people contended with Moses, saying, "If only we had died when our brothers died before the Lord!

Verse ConceptsRebellion Against God, Shown InDisputesCynicismDesire For DeathDeath

So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities."

Verse ConceptsVowsTo Be Given Into One's Hands

Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

Verse ConceptsImpatienceComing To The Red SeaFalling

And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness, for there is no bread or water, and we detest this worthless food."

Verse ConceptsFaultsBlameComplaintsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathNo FoodBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWhy Do You Do This?ComplainingQuestioning Life

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

Verse ConceptsBitingPoisonSerpentsAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As Punishment

Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he would take away the snakes from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodMoses, Significance OfRepentance, Examples OfAcknowledge, SinAfflictions, Benefits OfPraying For SinnersWe Have SinnedComplaints

And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the Lord spoke to Moses, "Gather the people and I will give them water."

Verse ConceptsGod Providing Waterbeer

The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs." And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

Verse ConceptsPrincesSceptreExcavation

Woe to you, Moab. You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesFalse Gods

And the Lord said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand. You will do to him what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.

Verse ConceptsDo Not Fear MenThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So they defeated Og, his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, and they possessed his land.

Verse ConceptsExtermination

And the Moabites were greatly afraid of the people, because they were so numerous. The Moabites were sick with fear because of the Israelites.

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfFearing Other PeopleMany In Israel

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, "Now this mass of people will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGrassTongueAnimals Eating

But God said to Balaam, "You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed."

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGod BlessesGod Forbidding

Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain."

Verse ConceptsHuntingDeterminationCreatures Drinking BloodLike CreaturesAnimals Eating

God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows.

Verse ConceptsBones BrokenHorns VictoriousWild OxPeople OvercomingGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptUnicorns

And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future."

Verse ConceptsNationalismRevelation Of The FutureReturning to their land

When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.

Verse ConceptsChastitySelf IndulgenceThey Committed ImmoralityPartyingSexual Immorality

These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Verse ConceptsBowingBowing To False GodsFood Offered To Idols

The Lord said to Moses, "Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the Lord in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."

Verse ConceptsPeople Hung To DeathAction Lest God Be Angry

The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader over the people of a clan of Midian.

"Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the Lord commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt."

To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it.

Verse ConceptsAccording To PeopleFew PeopleMany In Israel

"Exact vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites -- after that you will be gathered to your people."

Verse ConceptsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenMan AvengingGathered To One's PeopleRevenge

So Moses spoke to the people: "Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian.

Verse ConceptsGod Executes Vengeance

They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor -- which resulted in the plague among the community of the Lord!

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyadvisersMan's Counsel

"You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

Verse ConceptsNumberingBoth Men And Animals AffectedRules About Booty

"You must exact a tribute for the Lord from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.

Verse ConceptsTributes

From the Israelites' half-share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep -- from every kind of animal -- and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord's tabernacle."

The people were 16,000, of which the Lord's tribute was 32 people.

Verse ConceptsThirty SomeEleven To Nineteen Thousand

From the Israelites' share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the Lord's tabernacle, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Verse ConceptsNo Water For People

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