Strangers in Israel
50 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
32 sections
- Admitted to Worship in the Outer Court of the Temple
- All Foreigners Sojourning in Israel Were Counted As
- Chiefly Consisted of Captives Taken in War
- Chiefly Consisted of Foreign Servants
- Chiefly Consisted of Persons Who Came Into Israel for the Sake of Religious
- Chiefly Consisted of Persons Who Sought Employment Among the Jews
- Chiefly Consisted of The Remnant of the Mixed Multitude Who Came out of Egypt
- Chiefly Consisted of The Remnant of the Nations of the Land
- Laws Respecting: Allowed to Eat What Died of Itself
- Laws Respecting: Might offer Their Burnt-Offerings on the Altar of God
- Laws Respecting: Might Purchase Hebrew Servants Subject to Release
- Laws Respecting: Not to be Chosen As Kings in Israel
- Laws Respecting: Not to be Vexed or Oppressed
- Laws Respecting: Not to Blaspheme God
- Laws Respecting: Not to Eat Blood
- Laws Respecting: Not to Eat the Passover While Uncircumcised
- Laws Respecting: Not to Practise Idolatrous Rites
- Laws Respecting: Not to Work on the Sabbath
- Laws Respecting: Subject to the Civil Law
- Laws Respecting: The Jews Might Purchase and Have Them As Slaves
- Laws Respecting: The Jews Might Take Usury From
- Laws Respecting: To be Loved
- Laws Respecting: To be Relieved in Distress
- Laws Respecting: To Enjoy the Benefit of the Cities of Refuge
- Laws Respecting: To Have Justice Done to Them in all Disputes
- Laws Respecting: To Have the Gleaning of the Harvest
- Laws Respecting: To Have the Law Read to Them
- Laws Respecting: To Participate in the Rejoicings of the People
- Motives Urged on the Jews for Being Kind To
- The Jews Condemned for Oppressing
- Under the Care and Protection of God
- Very Numerous in Solomon's Reign
Admitted to Worship in the Outer Court of the Temple
- 1 Kings 8:41–43 And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name— …
- Revelation 11:2 But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
- Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
All Foreigners Sojourning in Israel Were Counted As
- Exodus 12:49 The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
Chiefly Consisted of Captives Taken in War
- Deuteronomy 21:10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
Chiefly Consisted of Foreign Servants
- Leviticus 25:44–45 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. …
Chiefly Consisted of Persons Who Came Into Israel for the Sake of Religious
- 1 Kings 8:41 And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
Chiefly Consisted of Persons Who Sought Employment Among the Jews
- 1 Kings 7:13 Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.
- 1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
Chiefly Consisted of The Remnant of the Mixed Multitude Who Came out of Egypt
- Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
Chiefly Consisted of The Remnant of the Nations of the Land
- 1 Kings 9:20 As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites) —
- 2 Chronicles 8:7 As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites) —
Laws Respecting: Allowed to Eat What Died of Itself
- Deuteronomy 14:21 You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a …
Laws Respecting: Might offer Their Burnt-Offerings on the Altar of God
- Leviticus 17:8 Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
- Leviticus 22:18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,
- Numbers 15:14 And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.
Laws Respecting: Might Purchase Hebrew Servants Subject to Release
- Leviticus 25:47–48 If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan, …
Laws Respecting: Not to be Chosen As Kings in Israel
- Deuteronomy 17:15 you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
Laws Respecting: Not to be Vexed or Oppressed
- Exodus 22:21 You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 23:9 Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:33 When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
Laws Respecting: Not to Blaspheme God
- Leviticus 24:16 Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.
Laws Respecting: Not to Eat Blood
- Leviticus 17:10–12 If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people. …
Laws Respecting: Not to Eat the Passover While Uncircumcised
- Exodus 12:43–44 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it. …
Laws Respecting: Not to Practise Idolatrous Rites
- Leviticus 20:2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
Laws Respecting: Not to Work on the Sabbath
- Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
- Exodus 23:12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
- Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the …
Laws Respecting: Subject to the Civil Law
- Leviticus 24:22 You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
Laws Respecting: The Jews Might Purchase and Have Them As Slaves
- Leviticus 25:44–45 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. …
Laws Respecting: The Jews Might Take Usury From
- Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
Laws Respecting: To be Loved
- Leviticus 19:34 You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 10:19 So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Laws Respecting: To be Relieved in Distress
- Leviticus 25:35 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
Laws Respecting: To Enjoy the Benefit of the Cities of Refuge
- Numbers 35:15 These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Laws Respecting: To Have Justice Done to Them in all Disputes
- Deuteronomy 1:16 At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
- Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Laws Respecting: To Have the Gleaning of the Harvest
- Leviticus 19:10 You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 23:22 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
- Deuteronomy 24:19–22 If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. …
Laws Respecting: To Have the Law Read to Them
- Deuteronomy 31:12 Assemble the people— men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates— so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
- Joshua 8:32–35 And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. …
Laws Respecting: To Participate in the Rejoicings of the People
- Deuteronomy 14:29 Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 16:11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name — you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, …
- Deuteronomy 16:14 And you shall rejoice in your feast— you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 26:11 So you shall rejoice — you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you — in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.
Motives Urged on the Jews for Being Kind To
- Exodus 22:21 You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 23:9 Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
The Jews Condemned for Oppressing
- Psalm 94:6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
- Ezekiel 22:7 Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
Under the Care and Protection of God
- Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Psalm 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Very Numerous in Solomon's Reign
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.