68 occurrences

'Stranger' in the Bible

'And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfLess Than A Year OldBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGroups Of Slaves

and all the men of his house -- born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger -- have been circumcised with him.

Verse ConceptsGroups Of Slaves

And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfHeads Of The FamilyClean, Spiritual UseReformationIdolsEmployers, Good ExamplesForeign ThingsChanging ClothesClean ClothesPutting Away Other GodsChanging YourselfHinduism

And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that are in their hand, and the rings that are in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which is by Shechem;

Verse ConceptsEarringsOrnamentsRingsForeign ThingsOaksHidden ThingsPutting Away Other Godsjewelry

And Jehovah saith unto Moses and Aaron, 'This is a statute of the passover; Any son of a stranger doth not eat of it;

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsLaws Restricting ForeignersThe Law Given To Israel

and they have eaten those things by which there is atonement to consecrate their hand, to sanctify them; and a stranger doth not eat -- for they are holy;

Verse ConceptsStrangersPriests Atoning

a man who compoundeth any like it, or who putteth of it on a stranger -- hath even been cut off from his people.'

Verse ConceptsThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

'And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing;

Verse ConceptsLaws Restricting Foreigners

and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

And from the hand of a son of a stranger ye do not bring near the bread of your God, of any of these, for their corruption is in them; blemish is in them; they are not pleasing for you.'

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of WorshipStrangersBlemished CreaturesAcceptancecorruption

'And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

Verse ConceptsAccess To God, In Old TestamentStrangersExclusionMaking The TabernacleDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is NearDeath ApproachingMoving To A New Place

And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceCamping During The ExodusDanger When God Is Near

a memorial to the sons of Israel, so that a stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron doth not draw near to make a perfume before Jehovah, and is not as Korah, and as his company, -- as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses to him.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesStrangersExclusion

and they have been joined unto thee, and have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and a stranger doth not come near unto you;

and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesAccess To God, In Old TestamentMediatorPriesthood, In OtServanthood, And Worship Of GodExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who is within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell it to a stranger; for a holy people thou art to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;

Verse ConceptsForeignersLaws Restricting ForeignersDebt

thou dost certainly set over thee a king on whom Jehovah doth fix; from the midst of thy brethren thou dost set over thee a king; thou art not able to set over thee a stranger, who is not thy brother.

Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

Verse ConceptsBankruptcyForeignersInterestStrangersLaws Restricting Foreigners

And the latter generation of your sons who rise after you, and the stranger who cometh in from a land afar off, have said when they have seen the strokes of that land, and its sicknesses which Jehovah hath sent into it, --

Verse ConceptsForeignersGenerationsPeople From Far Away

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;

Verse ConceptsProstitutionRest, PhysicalSleep, And DeathTrust, Lack OfNearness Of DeathBreaking The CovenantDeath Will Soon HappenDeath

When ye forsake Jehovah, and have served gods of a stranger, then He hath turned back and done evil to you, and consumed you, after that He hath done good to you.'

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod Will Bring HarmForgiving Others Who Hurt YouServing God

and, now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, God of Israel.'

Verse ConceptsRestoration After BackslidingAbandoning Things

And they turn aside the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and serve Jehovah, and His soul is grieved with the misery of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfAbandoning ThingsPutting Away Other GodsCompetition

And his lord saith unto him, 'Let us not turn aside unto the city of a stranger, that is not of the sons of Israel, thither, but we have passed over unto Gibeah.'

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Foreigners

And she falleth on her face, and boweth herself to the earth, and saith unto him, 'Wherefore have I found grace in thine eyes, to discern me, and I a stranger?'

Verse ConceptsBowingGrace, In Human RelationshipsProstrationGratitudeLoving Foreigners

And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, 'If with all your heart ye are turning back unto Jehovah -- turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto Jehovah, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.'

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofCommitment, to Goddouble mindednessReformationSyncretismDivided HeartsUnquestioning ServiceReturning To GodWhole HeartednessIndividuals Saving OthersPutting Away Other GodsServing Asherah

And the king saith unto Ittai the Gittite, 'Why dost thou go -- thou also -- with us? turn back -- and abide with the king, for thou art a stranger, and also an exile thou -- to thy place.

Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me, At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPretendingObeying People

Sons of a stranger fade away, And gird themselves by their close places.

Verse ConceptsForeignersGroups Tremblingcrusades

and it cometh to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also bringeth forth, and we are together, there is no stranger with us in the house, save we two, in the house.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The Week

And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and hath come from a land afar off for Thy name's sake --

Verse ConceptsForeigners

Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name hath been called on this house which I have builded.

Verse ConceptsHousesReverence, And God's NatureGod Acts From HeavenA Place For God's NameKnowing God's Character

'And also, unto the stranger who is not of Thy people Israel, and he hath come from a land afar off for the sake of Thy great name, and Thy strong hand, and Thy stretched-out arm, and they have come in and prayed towards this house:

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfForeignersArmsHand Of GodStrangers in israelAliens

then Thou dost hear from the heavens, from the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for: so that all the peoples of the earth do know Thy name, so as to fear Thee, as Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name is called on this house that I have built.

Verse ConceptsHousesReverence, And God's Nature

and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And he turneth aside the gods of the stranger, and the idol, out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and casteth them to the outside of the city.

Verse ConceptsReformationBuilding AltarsDestruction Of Satan's Works

and the seed of Israel are separated from all sons of a stranger, and stand and confess concerning their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers,

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Believer's Relation ToForeignersWorship, Elements OfSeparation From Evil PeopleAvoiding ForeignersSin Confessedconfessing

And I have cleansed them from every stranger, and appoint charges to priests and to Levites, each in his work,

Verse ConceptsAvoiding ForeignersAssignment

To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Foreigners

Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.

Verse ConceptsGuestsReckoned As Foreigners

Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman Desiresmyself

At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,

Verse ConceptsForeignersObedience To GodPretendingObeying People

How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

Verse ConceptsJudaismForeign Things

Send forth Thy hand from on high, Free me, and deliver me from many waters, From the hand of sons of a stranger,

Verse ConceptsForeignersRescueGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched OutAvoiding ForeignersSwamped

Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood,

Verse ConceptsForeignersenemies, of believersDeceitful TonguesWhat Foreigners Are LikeAvoiding ForeignersEvil For The Right HandThose Who Are LiarsAliensLying And Deceit

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Verse ConceptsHarlotsSalvation By Other ThingsGodly WomanSexual Purity

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

Verse ConceptsInfatuationAvoid Adultery

My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

Verse ConceptsHandsShaking HandsDebtFriendship Kjv

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.

Verse ConceptsNature Of The HeartFamily ProblemsBitternessGrateful HeartA Broken Heartcancergrieving

Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

Verse ConceptsCommendationBraggingCommending OneselfLoving YourselfBeing YourselfBoasting

Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

A man to whom God giveth wealth, and riches, and honour, and there is no lack to his soul of all that he desireth, and God giveth him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourSuffering From ForeignersGod Gives WealthTragedyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingscatspossessionsempowerment

I -- I declared, and saved, and proclaimed, And there is no stranger with you, And ye are My witnesses, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I am God.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsI Am The Lord

Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: 'Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.' Nor say let the eunuch, 'Lo, I am a tree dried up,'

And sons of the stranger, who are joined to Jehovah, To serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, To be to Him for servants, Every keeper of the sabbath from polluting it, And those keeping hold on My covenant.

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnited With GodForeigners Included Among The PeopleStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

And sons of a stranger have built thy walls, And their kings do serve thee, For in My wrath I have smitten thee, And in My good pleasure I have pitied thee.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfForeignersReinstatementServanthood, In SocietyAnger Of God, Saved FromDivine FavourForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Showed MercyAliensFavorrebuilding

Sworn hath Jehovah by His right hand, Even by the arm of His strength: 'I give not thy corn any more as food for thine enemies, Nor do sons of a stranger drink thy new wine, For which thou hast laboured.

Verse ConceptsForeignersHandsOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtRight Hand Of GodForeigners SubduedGod Feeds All The EarthOvercoming EnemiesAliensSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesPollutionsForeigners In The Holy PlacesBreaking The CovenantFat Of The SacrificesUncircumcised In HeartCovenant Made At Sinai

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who is in the midst of the sons of Israel,

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessForeigners In The Holy PlacesStrangers in israel

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