'Peoples' in the Bible

I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

The Lord said to her,“Two nations are in your womb;And two peoples will be separated from your body;And one people shall be stronger than the other;And the older shall serve the younger.”

May peoples serve you,And nations bow down to you;Be master of your brothers,And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.Cursed be those who curse you,And blessed be those who bless you.”

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

and He said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.’

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,Until Shiloh comes,And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

“The peoples have heard, they tremble;Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

Hence I have said to you, “You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.

This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle.

You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Yet on your fathers did the Lord set His affection to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.

of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,When He separated the sons of man,He set the boundaries of the peoplesAccording to the number of the sons of Israel.

“As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;With them he will push the peoples,All at once, to the ends of the earth.And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”

“They will call peoples to the mountain;There they will offer righteous sacrifices;For they will draw out the abundance of the seas,And the hidden treasures of the sand.”

that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”

for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.

The Lord drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the Lord, for He is our God.”

and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the Lord to anger.

“From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down,Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples;From Machir commanders came down,And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of office.

The God who executes vengeance for me,And brings down peoples under me,

Men came from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.

hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name.

For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord God.”

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no one else.

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

But they acted treacherously against the God of their fathers and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;Make known His deeds among the peoples.

Tell of His glory among the nations,His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,But the Lord made the heavens.

Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, and fear You as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name.

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, even he may become a priest of what are no gods.

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands able at all to deliver their land from my hand?

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men’s hands.

So they set up the altar on its foundation, for they were terrified because of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.

Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.”

which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end and with their impurity.

shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not be angry with us to the point of destruction, until there is no remnant nor any who escape?

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

Remember the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful I will scatter you among the peoples;

“You also gave them kingdoms and peoples,And allotted them to them as a boundary.They took possession of the land of Sihon the king of HeshbonAnd the land of Og the king of Bashan.

“So their sons entered and possessed the land.And You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites,And You gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land,To do with them as they desired.

“However, You bore with them for many years,And admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets,Yet they would not give ear.Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Now the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding,

and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

As for the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

In the presence of the king and the princes, Memucan said, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king but also all the princes and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain.

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day.

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in each and every province was published to all the peoples, so that the Jews would be ready for this day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

In each and every province and in each and every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree arrived, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.

The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm; and no one could stand before them, for the dread of them had fallen on all the peoples.

“For by these He judges peoples;He gives food in abundance.

Why are the nations in an uproarAnd the peoples devising a vain thing?

Let the assembly of the peoples encompass You,And over them return on high.

The Lord judges the peoples;Vindicate me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.

And He will judge the world in righteousness;He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;Declare among the peoples His deeds.

The God who executes vengeance for me,And subdues peoples under me.

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;Then You planted them;You afflicted the peoples,Then You spread them abroad.

You make us a byword among the nations,A laughingstock among the peoples.

Your arrows are sharp;The peoples fall under You;Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.

I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations;Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.O clap your hands, all peoples;Shout to God with the voice of joy.

He subdues peoples under usAnd nations under our feet.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.Hear this, all peoples;Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

Because of wickedness, cast them forth,In anger put down the peoples, O God!

I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples;I will sing praises to You among the nations.

Who stills the roaring of the seas,The roaring of their waves,And the tumult of the peoples.

Bless our God, O peoples,And sound His praise abroad,

Let the peoples praise You, O God;Let all the peoples praise You.

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy;For You will judge the peoples with uprightnessAnd guide the nations on the earth. Selah.

Let the peoples praise You, O God;Let all the peoples praise You.

Rebuke the beasts in the reeds,The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,Trampling under foot the pieces of silver;He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

You are the God who works wonders;You have made known Your strength among the peoples.

The Lord will count when He registers the peoples,“This one was born there.” Selah.

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants;How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,

Tell of His glory among the nations,His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,But the Lord made the heavens.

Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.