Gen 31:15 Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.
Exo 2:22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”
Exo 18:3 along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom ( for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”),
Exo 21:8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.
Deu 14:21 “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deu 15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.
Deu 17:15 you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Deu 23:20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
Deu 29:22 And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick—
Judg 19:12 And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah.”
Rut 2:10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”
2Sa 15:19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.
1Ki 8:41 “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake
1Ki 8:43 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 and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
1Ki 11:1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
1Ki 11:8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
2Ch 6:32 “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,
2Ch 6:33 hear from 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 and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
Ezr 10:2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Ezr 10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
Ezr 10:11 Now then make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”
Ezr 10:14 Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”
Ezr 10:17 and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
Ezr 10:18 Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.
Ezr 10:44 All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.
Neh 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Neh 13:27 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
Job 19:15 The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
Psa 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
an alien to my mother’s sons.
Pro 2:16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words,
from the adulteress with her smooth words,
Pro 5:10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
Pro 5:20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Pro 6:24 to preserve you from the evil woman,
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Pro 7:5 to keep you from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
Pro 20:16 Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
Pro 23:27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;
an adulteress is a narrow well.
an adulteress is a narrow well.
Pro 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
a stranger, and not your own lips.
a stranger, and not your own lips.
Pro 27:13 Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
Ecc 6:2 a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.
Isa 2:6 For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things from the east
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,
and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things from the east
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,
and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
Isa 28:21 For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim;
as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused;
to do his deed—strange is his deed!
and to work his work—alien is his work!
as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused;
to do his deed—strange is his deed!
and to work his work—alien is his work!
Jer 2:21 Yet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
wholly of pure seed.
How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
Lam 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
our homes to foreigners.
Obd 11 On the day that you stood aloof,
on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
Zep 1:8 And on the day of the Lord’s sacrifice—
“I will punish the officials and the king’s sons
and all who array themselves in foreign attire.
“I will punish the officials and the king’s sons
and all who array themselves in foreign attire.
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