Posted on 12/14/2015 11:59:16 AM PST by mbarker12474
What Does the Bible Actually Say About How Christians are to View Muslim Immigration?
We present below two lists of verses of interest below.
First of all, we do NOT attempt to answer this question, or even weigh-in on the answer here. Instead, we attempt to list, without comment, every single Bible verse which has some relevance to the topic at hand. We let the Bible speak for itself.
Our goal is this: If the Bible addresses the question of interest, then it does so in the verses listed here. Otherwise unless we've missed something, the Bible DOES NOT ADDRESS IT.
Our only comment is to say that, generally speaking, the Bible may or may not fully address our questions of temporal socio-political interests. It may not address our favorite temporal question at all. It may address our question only tangentially.
Shown below are two lists of Bible verses. The first list is an attempt to list exhaustively every Bible verse which touches somehow on the following topic:
"Treatment by Hebrews, Israelites, Jews, Christians, Judah, and Israel of foreigners, aliens, sojourners, immigrants, travelers, and those following other gods, especially when those peoples are a minority presence in lands held by Hebrews, Israelites, Jews, Christians, Judah, and Israel."
The second list is a SAMPLING of Bible verses which pertain to foreigners, aliens, sojourners, immigrants, travelers, and those following other gods in other contexts, especially when those contexts involve Hebrews, Jews, Christians, etc.
As you examine both these lists, but especially the second list, look for:
Does this verse concern Hebrews? Biblical Jews? Modern Jews? Christians? Israel? Judah? Israelistes? All people? All times?
Does this verse concern foreigners per se, or is it more concerned with foreign gods?
Does this verse concern the permanent alien resident? Short- term, temporary travelling alien?
Does this verse concern God's people living in their own lands, or God's followers living in other lands?
Does this verse concern foreigners or aliens (etc.) living in the lands of God's people, or living in their own lands?
Does this verse concern Israelites living in God's land, where the Hebrews are aliens in land belonging to God?
Does this verse concern God's people behaving badly? By adopting alien practices? With alien gods?
Does this verse concern a Bible-following majority living amongst a foreign minority, or a Bible-following minority living amongst a foreign majority?
Does this verse pertain to attitudes (rather than living relations) regarding aliens, foreigners, etc.? Positive attitudes? Negative attitudes?
Does this verse pertain to God-followers being treated well or being treated poorly?
Does this verse pertain to aliens being treated well or being treated poorly?
Does this verse pertain to illegally resident persons?
Does this verse pertain to aliens having malevolent intent? In the country with nefarious purposes?
Does this verse pertain mostly to differences in religious practices and beliefs, and less to national, governmental, and civic requirements?
Does this verse pertain to expectations of the individual, or does it instead pertain to expecations of the collective group?
Does this verse pertain to personal interactions, or does it instead pertain to community or national policy choices?
Is this verse prescriptive or is it instead descriptive? Does it say "you should serve the alien a cup of coffee," or does it say "Jacob served the alien a cup of coffee?"
List One - Exhaustive Regarding God's People Treatment of Aliens, Foreigners, Sojourners, Strangers, Travellers, Immigrants, Strangers
Genesis 14:20 20 And blessed be God Most High,Who has delivered your enemies into your hand."He gave him a tenth of all.
Genesis 21:23 23 now therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned."
Exodus 12:19 19 'Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.
Exodus 12:49 49 "The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you."
Exodus 20:10 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
Exodus 21:8 8 "If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.
Exodus 22:21 21 "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9 9 "You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:12 12 "Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.
Leviticus 16:29 29 "This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you;
Leviticus 17:15 15 "When any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening; then he will become clean.
Leviticus 18:26 26 'But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you
Leviticus 19:10 10 'Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:34 34 'The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:2 2 "You shall also say to the sons of Israel: 'Any man from the sons of Israel or from the aliens sojourning in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus 22:25 25 nor shall you accept any such from the hand of a foreigner for offering as the food of your God; for their corruption is in them, they have a defect, they shall not be accepted for you.'"
Leviticus 23:22 22 'When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'"
Leviticus 24:16 16 'Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Leviticus 24:22 22 'There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"
Leviticus 25:6 6 'All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.
Leviticus 25:50-54 50 He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker. 51 If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. 52 If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service. 53 He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. 54 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.
Numbers 9:14 14 'If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.'"
Numbers 15:16 16 'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.'"
Numbers 15:30 30 'But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the LORD; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 19:10 10 'The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening; and it shall be a perpetual statute to the sons of Israel and to the alien who sojourns among them.
Numbers 35:15 15 'These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Deuteronomy 1:16 16 "Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.
Deuteronomy 5:14 14 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Deuteronomy 10:19 19 "So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 14:21 21 "You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 14:29 29 "The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 15:3 3 "From a foreigner you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother.
Deuteronomy 16:14 14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns.
Deuteronomy 17:15 15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.
Deuteronomy 23:7 7 "You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.
Deuteronomy 23:20 20 "You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess.
Deuteronomy 24:14 14 "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.
Deuteronomy 24:21 21 "When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 26:13 13 "You shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments.
Deuteronomy 27:19 19 'Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Deuteronomy 28:43 43 "The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 29:11 11 your little ones, your wives, and the alien who is within your camps, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,
Deuteronomy 29:22 22 "Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,
Joshua 8:35 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them.
Joshua 20:9 9 These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.
Judges 17:9 9 Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place."
Ruth 2:10 10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?"
2 Samuel 1:13 13 David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" And he answered, "I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite."
1 Chronicles 22:2 2 So David gave orders to gather the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.
2 Chronicles 2:17 17 Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.
2 Chronicles 6:32-33 32 "Also concerning the foreigner who is not from Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your great name's sake and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house, 33 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.
Job 21:29 29 "Have you not asked wayfaring men,And do you not recognize their witness?
Job 31:32 32 "The alien has not lodged outside,For I have opened my doors to the traveler.
Psalm 15:1 1 A Psalm of David.O LORD, who may abide in Your tent?Who may dwell on Your holy hill?
Psalm 39:12 12 "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry;Do not be silent at my tears;For I am a stranger with You,A sojourner like all my fathers.
Isaiah 14:1 1 When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 16:4 4 "Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you;Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer."For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.
Isaiah 56:6 6 "Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD,To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbathAnd holds fast My covenant;
Jeremiah 7:6 6 if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. (ESV)
Ezekiel 14:7 7 "For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I the LORD will be brought to answer him in My own person.
Ezekiel 22:7 7 "They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.
Ezekiel 22:29 29 "The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.
Ezekiel 47:21-23 21 "So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. 22 "You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 "And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance," declares the Lord GOD.
Galatians 5:14 14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."
Malachi 3:5 5 "Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me," says the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 25:44 44 "Then they themselves also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?'
Luke 7:9 9 Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled at him [the Roman Centurian], and turned and said to the crowd that was following Him, "I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith."
Luke 10:33 33 "But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion,
Luke 17:15-19 15 Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice, 16 and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan. 17 Then Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine--where are they? 18 "Was no one found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?" 19 And He said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith has made you well."
Acts 10:28 28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.
Acts 10:35 35 but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.
Hebrews 13:1-2 1Let love of the brethren continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
3 John 1:5-6 5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers; 6 and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
List Two - Sampling Regarding Aliens, Foreigners, Sojourners, Strangers, Travellers, Immigrants, Strangers in a Variety of Contexts
Genesis 15:13 13 God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.
Genesis 21:34 34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Genesis 23:4 4 "I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
Genesis 26:3 3 "Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 28:4 4 "May He also give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham."
Genesis 31:15 15 "Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.
Genesis 32:4 4 He also commanded them saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;
Genesis 37:1 1 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
Exodus 2:22 22 Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."
Exodus 6:4 4 "I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourned.
Exodus 18:3 3 and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."
Exodus 18:1-3,27 1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away, 3 and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." ... 27 Then Moses bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way into his own land.
Leviticus 25:23 23 'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.
Numbers 20:17 17 'Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the king's highway, not turning to the right or left, until we pass through your territory.'"
Numbers 21:4 4 Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey.
Numbers 21:22 22 "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king's highway until we have passed through your border."
Numbers 22:1 1 Then the sons of Israel journeyed, and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho.
Numbers 22:1-3 1 Then the sons of Israel journeyed, and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho. 2 Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:8 8 "So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:27 27 'Let me pass through your land, I will travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Deuteronomy 26:5 5 "You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.
Joshua 24:23 23 "Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel."
Judges 19:16-21 16 Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites. 17 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going, and where do you come from?" 18 He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, for I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to my house, and no man will take me into his house. 19 "Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything." 20 The old man said, "Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square." 21 So he took him into his house and gave the donkeys fodder, and they washed their feet and ate and drank.
Ruth 1:1 1 Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
1 Samuel 7:3 3 Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you return to the LORD with all your heart, remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your hearts to the LORD and serve Him alone; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."
2 Samuel 22:46 46 "Foreigners lose heart,And come trembling out of their fortresses.
1 Kings 8:43 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, 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.
1 Kings 11:1 1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
1 Kings 11:8 8 Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
2 Kings 8:2 2 So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God, and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
2 Kings 17:24 24 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
2 Kings 19:24 24 "I dug wells and drank foreign waters,And with the sole of my feet I dried upAll the rivers of Egypt."
1 Chronicles 16:18-22 18 Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan,As the portion of your inheritance." 19 When they were only a few in number,Very few, and strangers in it, 20 And they wandered about from nation to nation,And from one kingdom to another people, 21 He permitted no man to oppress them,And He reproved kings for their sakes, saying, 22 "Do not touch My anointed ones,And do My prophets no harm."
1 Chronicles 29:15 15 "For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
2 Chronicles 14:3 3 for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,
2 Chronicles 33:15 15 He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
2 Chronicles 36:23 23 "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up!'"
Ezra 1:4 4 'Every survivor, at whatever place he may live, let the men of that place support him with silver and gold, with goods and cattle, together with a freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.'"
Ezra 9:7 7 "Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder and to open shame, as it is this day.
Ezra 10:2 2 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.
Ezra 10:6 6 Then Ezra rose from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. Although he went there, he did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
Ezra 10:18 18 Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.
Ezra 10:44 44 All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Nehemiah 9:2 2 The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
Nehemiah 13:1 1 On that day they read aloud from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and there was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
Nehemiah 13:3 3 So when they heard the law, they excluded all foreigners from Israel.
Nehemiah 13:27 27 "Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"
Nehemiah 13:30 30 Thus I purified them from everything foreign and appointed duties for the priests and the Levites, each in his task,
Job 15:19 19 To whom alone the land was given,And no alien passed among them.
Job 19:15 15 "Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.I am a foreigner in their sight.
Psalm 18:44 44 As soon as they hear, they obey me;Foreigners submit to me.
Psalm 18:45 45 Foreigners fade away,And come trembling out of their fortresses.
Psalm 69:8 8 I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother's sons.
Psalm 81:9 9 "Let there be no strange god among you;Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
Psalm 94:6 6 They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; (ESV)
Psalm 105:12 12 When they were only a few men in number,Very few, and strangers in it.
Psalm 105:23 23 Israel also came into Egypt;Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalm 105:44 44 He gave them also the lands of the nations,That they might take possession of the fruit of the peoples' labor,
Psalm 114:1 1 When Israel went forth from Egypt,The house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion.
Psalm 120:5 5 Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech,For I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Psalm 137:4 4 How can we sing the LORD'S song In a foreign land?
Psalm 144:11 11 Rescue me and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,Whose mouth speaks deceitAnd whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Proverbs 5:10 10 And strangers will be filled with your strengthAnd your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien;
Proverbs 5:20 20 For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteressAnd embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Proverbs 7:5 5 That they may keep you from an adulteress,From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 20:16 16 Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;And for foreigners, hold him in pledge.
Ecclesiastes 6:2 2 a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.
Isaiah 1:7 7 Your land is desolate,Your cities are burned with fire,Your fields--strangers are devouring them in your presence;It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 2:6 6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filled with influences from the east,And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.
Isaiah 25:5 5 Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens;Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.
Isaiah 52:4 4 For thus says the Lord GOD, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah 54:3 3 "For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.And your descendants will possess nationsAnd will resettle the desolate cities.
Isaiah 60:10 10 "Foreigners will build up your walls,And their kings will minister to you;For in My wrath I struck you,And in My favor I have had compassion on you.
Isaiah 61:5 5 Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks,And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.
Isaiah 62:8 8 The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm,"I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies;Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored."
Jeremiah 3:11-13 11 The LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. 12 Go, proclaim this message toward the north: " 'Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, 'I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,' declares the LORD, 'I will not be angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your guilt-- you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,' " declares the LORD. (NIV)
Jeremiah 5:19 19 "It shall come about when they say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' then you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'
Jeremiah 8:19 19 Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:"Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?""Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?"
Jeremiah 14:7-8 7 "Although our iniquities testify against us,O LORD, act for Your name's sake!Truly our apostasies have been many,We have sinned against You. 8 "O Hope of Israel,Its Savior in time of distress,Why are You like a stranger in the landOr like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?
Jeremiah 19:4 4 "Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
Jeremiah 25:17-27 17 Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it: 18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his princes and all his people; 20 and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod); 21 Edom, Moab and the sons of Ammon; 22 and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea; 23 and Dedan, Tema, Buz and all who cut the corners of their hair; 24 and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who dwell in the desert; 25 and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam and all the kings of Media; 26 and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. 27 "You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you."'
Jeremiah 35:7 7 'You shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed and you shall not plant a vineyard or own one; but in tents you shall dwell all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.'
Jeremiah 51:51 51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;Disgrace has covered our faces,For aliens have enteredThe holy places of the LORD'S house.
Lamentations 1:10 10 The adversary has stretched out his handOver all her precious things,For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,The ones whom You commandedThat they should not enter into Your congregation.
Lamentations 5:2 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,Our houses to aliens.
Ezekiel 7:21 21 'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
Ezekiel 11:9 9 "And I will bring you out of the midst of the city and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you.
Ezekiel 23:28 28 "For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated. [to Oholibah/Jerusalem]
Ezekiel 44:7-9 7 when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenant void--this in addition to all your abominations. 8 "And you have not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners to keep charge of My sanctuary." 9 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.
Daniel 11:39 39 "He will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to those who acknowledge him and will cause them to rule over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.
Joel 3:17 17 Then you will know that I am the LORD your God,Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.So Jerusalem will be holy,And strangers will pass through it no more.
Obadiah 1:11 11 "On the day that you stood aloof,On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,And foreigners entered his gateAnd cast lots for Jerusalem--You too were as one of them.
Zephaniah 1:8 8 "Then it will come about on the day of the LORD'S sacrificeThat I will punish the princes, the king's sonsAnd all who clothe themselves with foreign garments.
Malachi 2:11 11 "Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD which He loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Acts 7:6 6 "But God spoke to this effect, that his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE ALIENS IN A FOREIGN LAND, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE ENSLAVED AND MISTREATED FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.
Acts 7:29 29 "At this remark, MOSES FLED AND BECAME AN ALIEN IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN, where he became the father of two sons.
Acts 8:40 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities until he came to Caesarea.
Acts 11:19 19 So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.
Acts 13:17 17 "The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out from it.
Acts 15:3 3 Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren.
Acts 16:6-10 6 They passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia; 7 and after they came to Mysia, they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them; 8 and passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." 10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
1 Corinthians 14:21 21 In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.†(ESV)
Hebrews 11:8-9 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;
1 Peter 1:1 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen
Enjoy.
It says treat him nicely until he starts sawing your head off, raping your women or running you down with a stolen automobile.
Whoa. Back up there a minute. There were no moslems when the bible was written.
If the immigrant is from Amalek, the Bible is pretty tough on them.
I would have to put a pot of strong coffee on to get through that.
Jesus broke the Ten Commandments down to two: Love God, Love your Neighbor.
I agree .. but I think people need to realize that some “immigrants” are coming here as a ruse (an ulterior motive). The REASON they are coming here is TO KILL US AND TRANSFORM AMERICA.
I’m SORRY, BUT I’M NOT GOING TO BE NICE TO THAT KIND OF PERSON. No one has the RIGHT to take my life.
OT Jewish law was never intended to apply to anyone besides Jews, and laws concerning the homeland apply only in the Land of Israel.
That’s not not even going into the differences between English meanings and meanings in the original language.
No verses state that we have to put up with any crap from them, though He may deliver us into their hands. When He does that, we got it coming to us.
Holy crap! But that’s a lot of love thy neighbor stuff. Quite a difference between this and that “I’ll keel you” cult.
Thank you Sarge .. thank you for your service to America.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Sums it up. If I were doing as these jihadists are doing;
I would have the persons I was doing it to just evict my
butt!
MORATORIUM - as Trump suggested - is sensible.
What’s Hussein Obama’s all-fired hurry to usher in
thousands of these “immigrants” IMMEDIATELY!! Slow down.
1 John 1: 10
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them.
These nannies and dishwashers are going to go back where they came from or they are gonna die!
We need about a million men under arms to go door to door throughout the nation, and doing car by car searches at highway roadblocks, and anyone who cannot produce their papers is going to be put on a boxcar to Nuevo Laredo.
Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
But God knew they were coming.
Thank you for taking the time. I don’t have the ability to do a study of it atm but when I can take it off the printer, it’ll make for a good study.
And he knew they would try to plunder this nation. I like Thomas Jeffersons perspective on moslem. And, I go on record saying God already called Americans to arms on moslem, on September 11, 2001. We should head His call.
I would investigate “invasion” rather than alien or stranger. We are dealing with the mass invasion of our land.
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