The Jews
335 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
159 sections
- A Commercial People
- A Holy Nation
- A Holy People
- A Kingdom of Priests
- A Peculiar People
- A Peculiar Treasure
- A Special People
- A Spiritual Seed of True Believers Always Among
- All Other Nations: Envied
- All Other Nations: Hated
- All Other Nations: Oppressed
- All Other Nations: Persecuted
- All Other Nations: Rejoiced at Calamities of
- An Agricultural People
- Beloved for Their Father's Sake
- Blessedness of Blessing
- Blessedness of Favouring
- Brought out of Egypt by God
- Called: Children of Israel
- Called: Children of Jacob
- Called: Hebrews
- Called: Israelites
- Called: Jeshurun
- Called: Seed of Abraham
- Called: Seed of Israel
- Called: Seed of Jacob
- Cast off for Unbelief
- Chosen and Loved by God
- Christ Descended From
- Christ Was Sent To
- Christ: Expected By
- Christ: Murdered By
- Christ: Promised To
- Christ: Regarded As the Restorer of National Greatness
- Christ: Rejected By
- Christ: Sprang From
- Circumcised in Token of Their Covenant Relation
- Compassion of Christ For
- Condemned for Associating with Other Nations
- Conversion of, Illustrated
- Degenerated As They Increased in National Greatness
- Denunciations Against Those Who: Aggravated the Afflictions of
- Denunciations Against Those Who: Contended With
- Denunciations Against Those Who: Cursed
- Denunciations Against Those Who: Hated
- Denunciations Against Those Who: Oppressed
- Denunciations Against Those Who: Slaughtered
- Deprived of Civil and Religious Privileges
- Descendants of Abraham
- Descended from Abraham
- Desired and Obtained Kings
- Despised all Strangers
- Despised by the Nations
- Distinction of Castes Among, Noticed
- Divided Into Twelve Tribes
- Divided Into Two Kingdoms After Solomon
- Enemies of, Obliged to Acknowledge Them As Divinely Protected
- Gentiles Made One With, Under the Gospel
- God, Mindful of
- had a Series of Prophets to Promote National Reformation
- had an Ecclesiastical Establishment
- had Courts of Justice
- Held No Intercourse with Strangers
- Imprecated the Blood of Christ Upon Themselves and Their
- Many of, Believed the Gospel
- Modern, Divided Into: Hebrews or Pure Jews
- Modern, Divided Into: Hellenists or Grecians
- Modern, Divided Into: Many Sects and Parties
- National Character of Attachment to Customs of the Law
- National Character of Attachment to Moses
- National Character of Covetous
- National Character of Cowardly
- National Character of Distrustful of God
- National Character of Fondness for Their Brethren
- National Character of Fondness for Traditionary Customs
- National Character of Ignorant of the True Sense of Scripture
- National Character of Love of Country
- National Character of Pride of Descent
- National Character of Prone to Backsliding
- National Character of Prone to Formality in Religion
- National Character of Prone to Idolatry
- National Character of Prone to Rebellion
- National Character of Self-Righteous
- National Character of Stubborn and Stiffnecked
- National Character of Unfaithful to Covenant Engagements
- National Character of Ungrateful to God
- None Hated or Oppressed, with Impunity
- Obliged to Unite Against Enemies
- Often Displeased God by Their Sins
- Often Distinguished in War
- Often Subdued and Made Tributary
- Pray Importunately For
- Privileges of
- Prohibited From: Associating with Others
- Prohibited From: Covenanting with Others
- Prohibited From: Following Practices of Others
- Prohibited From: Marry with Others
- Promises Respecting Made to Abraham
- Promises Respecting Made to Isaac
- Promises Respecting Made to Jacob
- Promises Respecting Made to Themselves
- Promises Respecting: Blessing to the Gentiles by Conversion of
- Promises Respecting: Future Glory of
- Promises Respecting: Future Prosperity of
- Promises Respecting: Gentiles Assisting in Their Restoration
- Promises Respecting: Joy Occasioned by Conversion of
- Promises Respecting: Pardon of Sin
- Promises Respecting: Restoration to Their own Land
- Promises Respecting: Reunion of
- Promises Respecting: Salvation
- Promises Respecting: Sanctification
- Promises Respecting: Subjection of Gentiles To
- Promises Respecting: That Christ Shall Appear Amongst
- Promises Respecting: That Christ Shall Dwell Amongst
- Promises Respecting: That Christ Shall Reign Over
- Promises Respecting: The Pouring out of the Spirit Upon Them
- Promises Respecting: The Removal of Their Blindness
- Promises Respecting: Their Humiliation for the Rejection of Christ
- Promises Respecting: Their Return and Seeking to God
- Punished For: Breaking Covenant
- Punished For: Changing the Ordinances
- Punished For: Idolatry
- Punished For: Imprecating Upon Themselves the Blood of Christ
- Punished For: Killing the Prophets
- Punished For: Transgressing the Law
- Punished For: Unbelief
- Punishment of, for Rejecting and Killing Christ, Illustrated
- Received Proselytes from Other Nations
- Religion of, According to Rites Prescribed by God
- Religion of, Typical
- Restored to Their own Land by Cyrus
- Saints Remember
- Scattered Among the Nations
- Scattered and Peeled
- Separated from all Other Nations
- Separated to God
- Settled in Canaan
- Shall Finally be Saved
- Sojourned in Egypt
- Strengthened by God in War
- Taken Captive to Assyria and Babylon
- The Covenant Established With
- The Gospel Preached To, First
- The Lord's Portion
- The Objects of God's Choice
- The Objects of God's Love
- The Objects of God's Protection
- The Only People Who had Knowledge of God
- The Only People Who Worshipped God
- The People of God
- Their Country Trodden Under Foot by the Gentiles
- Their House Left Desolate
- Their National Greatness
- Their National Privileges
- Their Vast Numbers
- Trusted to Their Privileges for Salvation
- Unbelieving, Persecuted the Christians
- Under God's Special Protection
- Under the Theocracy Until the Time of Samuel
A Commercial People
- Ezekiel 27:17 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.
A Holy Nation
- Exodus 19:6 And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
A Holy People
- Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- 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 …
A Kingdom of Priests
- Exodus 19:6 And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
A Peculiar People
- Deuteronomy 14:2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
A Peculiar Treasure
- Exodus 19:5 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations — for the whole earth is Mine.
- Psalm 135:4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
A Special People
- Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
A Spiritual Seed of True Believers Always Among
- 1 Kings 19:18 Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel— all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
- Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
- Romans 9:6–7 It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. …
- Romans 11:1 I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Romans 11:5 In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
All Other Nations: Envied
- Nehemiah 4:1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews
- Isaiah 26:11 O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
- Ezekiel 35:11 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
All Other Nations: Hated
- Psalm 44:10 You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
- Ezekiel 35:5 Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
All Other Nations: Oppressed
- Exodus 3:9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
- Judges 2:18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who …
- Judges 4:3 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
All Other Nations: Persecuted
- Lamentations 1:3 Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
- Lamentations 5:5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
All Other Nations: Rejoiced at Calamities of
- Psalm 44:13–14 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. …
- Psalm 80:5–6 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears. …
- Ezekiel 36:4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a …
An Agricultural People
- Genesis 46:32 The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
Beloved for Their Father's Sake
- Deuteronomy 4:37 Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
- Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
- Romans 11:28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
Blessedness of Blessing
- Genesis 27:29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
Blessedness of Favouring
- Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
- Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.
Brought out of Egypt by God
- Exodus 12:42 Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 6:12 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Called: Children of Israel
- Genesis 50:25 And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
- Isaiah 27:12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
Called: Children of Jacob
- 1 Chronicles 16:13 O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
Called: Hebrews
- Genesis 14:13 Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
- Genesis 40:15 For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
Called: Israelites
- Exodus 9:7 Pharaoh sent officials and found that none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.
- Joshua 3:17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
Called: Jeshurun
- Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Called: Seed of Abraham
- Psalm 105:6 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- Isaiah 41:8 “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
Called: Seed of Israel
- 1 Chronicles 16:13 O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
Called: Seed of Jacob
- Jeremiah 33:26 then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have …
Cast off for Unbelief
- Romans 11:17 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
- Romans 11:20 That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
Chosen and Loved by God
- Deuteronomy 7:6–7 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth. …
Christ Descended From
- John 4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
- Romans 9:5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
Christ Was Sent To
- Matthew 15:24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
- Matthew 21:37 Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.
- Acts 3:20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you.
- Acts 3:22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- Acts 3:26 When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
Christ: Expected By
- Psalm 14:7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
- Matthew 11:3 to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
- Luke 2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
- Luke 2:38 Coming forward at that moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the Child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
- John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
Christ: Murdered By
- Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers —
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
Christ: Promised To
- Genesis 49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
- Daniel 9:25 Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
Christ: Regarded As the Restorer of National Greatness
- Matthew 20:21 “What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.”
- Luke 24:21 But we were hoping He was the One who would redeem Israel. And besides all this, it is the third day since these things took place.
- Acts 1:6 So when they came together, they asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
Christ: Rejected By
- Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
- Mark 6:3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.
- John 1:11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
Christ: Sprang From
- Romans 9:5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
- Hebrews 7:14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe as to which Moses said nothing about priests.
Circumcised in Token of Their Covenant Relation
- Genesis 17:10–11 This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. …
- Acts 7:8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Compassion of Christ For
- Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- Luke 19:41 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
Condemned for Associating with Other Nations
- Judges 2:1–3 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you, …
- Jeremiah 2:18 Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Conversion of, Illustrated
- Ezekiel 37:1–14 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. …
- Romans 11:24 For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
Degenerated As They Increased in National Greatness
- Amos 6:4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
Denunciations Against Those Who: Aggravated the Afflictions of
- Zechariah 1:14–15 Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion, …
Denunciations Against Those Who: Contended With
- Isaiah 41:11 Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.
- Isaiah 49:25 Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
Denunciations Against Those Who: Cursed
- Genesis 27:29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
- Numbers 24:9 He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness— who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
Denunciations Against Those Who: Hated
- Psalm 129:5 May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
- Ezekiel 35:5–6 Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment, …
Denunciations Against Those Who: Oppressed
- Isaiah 49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- Isaiah 51:21–23 Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine. …
Denunciations Against Those Who: Slaughtered
- Psalm 79:1–7 The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. …
- Ezekiel 35:5–6 Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment, …
Deprived of Civil and Religious Privileges
- Hosea 3:4 For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
Descendants of Abraham
- Psalm 105:6 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- John 8:33 “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
- Romans 9:7 Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
Descended from Abraham
- Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- John 8:39 “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
Desired and Obtained Kings
- 1 Samuel 8:5 “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
- 1 Samuel 8:22 “Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”
Despised all Strangers
- 1 Samuel 17:36 Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
- Matthew 16:26–27 What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? …
- Ephesians 2:11 Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands) —
Despised by the Nations
- Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander …
Distinction of Castes Among, Noticed
- Isaiah 65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
- Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him — for she is a sinner!”
- Luke 15:2 So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
- Acts 26:5 They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
Divided Into Twelve Tribes
- Genesis 35:22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
- Genesis 49:28 These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
Divided Into Two Kingdoms After Solomon
- 1 Kings 11:31–32 and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes. …
- 1 Kings 12:19–20 So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David. …
Enemies of, Obliged to Acknowledge Them As Divinely Protected
- Joshua 2:9–11 and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you. …
- Esther 6:13 Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him — for …
Gentiles Made One With, Under the Gospel
- Acts 10:15 The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
- Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
- Acts 15:8–9 And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us. …
- Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Ephesians 2:14–16 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility …
God, Mindful of
- Psalm 98:3 He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- Isaiah 49:15–16 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you! …
had a Series of Prophets to Promote National Reformation
- Jeremiah 7:25 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
- Jeremiah 26:4–5 And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you, …
- Jeremiah 35:15 Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to …
- Jeremiah 44:4 Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- Ezekiel 38:17 This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
had an Ecclesiastical Establishment
- Exodus 28:1 “Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.
- Numbers 18:6 Behold, I Myself have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.
- Malachi 2:4–7 Then you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts. …
had Courts of Justice
- Deuteronomy 16:18 You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
Held No Intercourse with Strangers
- John 4:9 “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
- Acts 11:2–3 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him …
Imprecated the Blood of Christ Upon Themselves and Their
- Matthew 27:25 All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Many of, Believed the Gospel
- Acts 21:20 When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
Modern, Divided Into: Hebrews or Pure Jews
- Acts 6:1 In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
- Philippians 3:5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
Modern, Divided Into: Hellenists or Grecians
Modern, Divided Into: Many Sects and Parties
- Matthew 16:6 “Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
- Mark 8:15 “Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
National Character of Attachment to Customs of the Law
- Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Acts 21:21 But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.
- Acts 22:3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.
National Character of Attachment to Moses
- John 9:28–29 Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses. …
- Acts 6:11 Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
National Character of Covetous
- Jeremiah 6:13 “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Ezekiel 33:31 So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Micah 2:2 They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
National Character of Cowardly
- Exodus 14:10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
- Numbers 14:3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
- Isaiah 51:12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
National Character of Distrustful of God
- Numbers 14:11 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
- Psalm 78:22 because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
National Character of Fondness for Their Brethren
- Exodus 2:11–12 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. …
- Romans 9:1–3 I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit. …
National Character of Fondness for Traditionary Customs
- Jeremiah 44:17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of …
- Ezekiel 20:18 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:21 But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances — though the man who does these things will live by them — and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My …
- Ezekiel 20:30 Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
- Mark 7:3–4 Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially. …
National Character of Ignorant of the True Sense of Scripture
- Acts 13:27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
- 2 Corinthians 3:13–15 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away. …
National Character of Love of Country
- Psalm 137:6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
National Character of Pride of Descent
- Jeremiah 13:9 “This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
- John 8:33 “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
- John 8:41 You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
National Character of Prone to Backsliding
- Jeremiah 2:11–13 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. …
- Jeremiah 8:5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
National Character of Prone to Formality in Religion
- Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
- Ezekiel 33:31 So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Matthew 15:7–9 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: …
National Character of Prone to Idolatry
- Isaiah 2:8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
- Isaiah 57:5 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
National Character of Prone to Rebellion
- Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 9:24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
- Isaiah 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
National Character of Self-Righteous
- Isaiah 65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
- Romans 10:3 Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
National Character of Stubborn and Stiffnecked
- Exodus 32:9 The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- Acts 7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
National Character of Unfaithful to Covenant Engagements
- Jeremiah 3:6–8 Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. …
- Jeremiah 31:32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 16:59 For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
National Character of Ungrateful to God
- Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
- Isaiah 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
None Hated or Oppressed, with Impunity
- Psalm 137:8–9 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us. …
- Ezekiel 25:15–16 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility, …
- Ezekiel 35:6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
- Obadiah 10–16 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever. …
Obliged to Unite Against Enemies
- Numbers 32:20–22 Moses replied, “If you will do this— if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle, …
- Judges 19:29 When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
- Judges 20:1–48 Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah. …
- 1 Samuel 11:7–8 He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of …
Often Displeased God by Their Sins
- Numbers 25:3 So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.
- Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- 1 Kings 16:2 “Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
- Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
- Isaiah 5:24–25 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and …
Often Distinguished in War
- Judges 7:19–23 Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands. …
- 1 Samuel 14:6–13 Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.” …
- 1 Samuel 17:32–33 And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!” …
- Nehemiah 4:16–22 And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah …
Often Subdued and Made Tributary
- Judges 2:13–14 for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. …
- Judges 4:2 So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
- Judges 6:2 and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
- Judges 6:6 Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
- 2 Kings 23:33 And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Pray Importunately For
- Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.
- Isaiah 62:1 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
- Isaiah 62:6–7 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves, …
- Jeremiah 31:7 For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
- Romans 10:1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
Privileges of
- Psalm 76:1–2 God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel. …
- Romans 3:1–2 What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? …
- Romans 9:4–5 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. …
Prohibited From: Associating with Others
- Acts 10:28 He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
Prohibited From: Covenanting with Others
- Exodus 23:32 You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
- Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
Prohibited From: Following Practices of Others
- Deuteronomy 12:29–31 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land, …
- Deuteronomy 18:9–14 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. …
Prohibited From: Marry with Others
- Deuteronomy 7:3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- Joshua 23:12 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
Promises Respecting Made to Abraham
- Genesis 12:1–3 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. …
- Genesis 13:14–17 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west, …
- Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land — from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates —
- Genesis 17:7–8 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. …
Promises Respecting Made to Isaac
- Genesis 26:2–5 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you. …
- Genesis 26:24 and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
Promises Respecting Made to Jacob
- Genesis 28:12–15 And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder. …
- Genesis 35:9–12 After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. …
Promises Respecting Made to Themselves
- Exodus 6:7–8 I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. …
- Exodus 19:5–6 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations — for the whole earth is Mine. …
- Deuteronomy 26:18–19 And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments, …
Promises Respecting: Blessing to the Gentiles by Conversion of
- Isaiah 2:1–5 This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem: …
- Isaiah 60:5 Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
- Isaiah 66:19 I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations — to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So …
- Romans 11:12 But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
- Romans 11:15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Promises Respecting: Future Glory of
- Isaiah 60:19 No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
- Isaiah 62:3–4 You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God. …
- Zephaniah 3:19–20 Behold, at that time, I will deal with all who afflict you. I will save the lame and gather the scattered; and I will appoint praise and fame for the disgraced throughout the earth. …
- Zechariah 2:5 For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
Promises Respecting: Future Prosperity of
- Isaiah 60:6–7 Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD. …
- Isaiah 60:9 Surely the islands will wait for Me, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.
- Isaiah 60:17 Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.
- Isaiah 61:4–6 They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. …
- Hosea 14:5–6 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon. …
Promises Respecting: Gentiles Assisting in Their Restoration
- Isaiah 49:22–23 This is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and raise My banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders. …
- Isaiah 60:10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
- Isaiah 60:14 The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 61:4–6 They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. …
Promises Respecting: Joy Occasioned by Conversion of
- Isaiah 44:23 Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
- Isaiah 49:13 Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
- Isaiah 52:8–9 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion. …
- Isaiah 66:10 Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,
Promises Respecting: Pardon of Sin
- Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Romans 11:27 And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
Promises Respecting: Restoration to Their own Land
- Isaiah 11:15–16 The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals. …
- Isaiah 14:1–3 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. …
- Isaiah 27:12–13 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one. …
- Jeremiah 16:14–15 Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’ …
- Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
- Ezekiel 37:21 you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
- Ezekiel 37:25 They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
- Ezekiel 39:25 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
- Ezekiel 39:28 Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, when I regather them to their own land, not leaving any of them behind after their exile among the nations.
- Luke 21:24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Promises Respecting: Reunion of
- Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
- Ezekiel 37:16–17 “And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph— the stick of Ephraim— and to all the house …
- Ezekiel 37:20–22 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people, …
- Hosea 1:11 Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
- Micah 2:12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture — a noisy throng.
Promises Respecting: Salvation
- Isaiah 59:20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.
- Romans 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
Promises Respecting: Sanctification
- Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Zechariah 12:1 Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
- Zechariah 12:9 So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Promises Respecting: Subjection of Gentiles To
- Isaiah 60:11–12 Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession. …
- Isaiah 60:14 The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Promises Respecting: That Christ Shall Appear Amongst
- Isaiah 59:20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.
- Zechariah 14:4 On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.
Promises Respecting: That Christ Shall Dwell Amongst
- Ezekiel 43:7 and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name — neither they nor …
- Ezekiel 43:9 Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.
- Zechariah 2:11 “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
Promises Respecting: That Christ Shall Reign Over
- Ezekiel 34:23–24 I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd. …
- Ezekiel 37:24–25 My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes. …
Promises Respecting: The Pouring out of the Spirit Upon Them
- Ezekiel 39:29 And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Zechariah 12:10 Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve …
Promises Respecting: The Removal of Their Blindness
- Romans 11:25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
- 2 Corinthians 3:14–16 But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed. …
Promises Respecting: Their Humiliation for the Rejection of Christ
- Zechariah 12:10 Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve …
Promises Respecting: Their Return and Seeking to God
- Hosea 3:5 Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
Punished For: Breaking Covenant
- Isaiah 24:5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Jeremiah 11:10 They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
Punished For: Changing the Ordinances
- Isaiah 24:5 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
Punished For: Idolatry
- Psalm 78:58–64 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. …
- Isaiah 65:3–7 to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick, …
Punished For: Imprecating Upon Themselves the Blood of Christ
- Matthew 27:25 All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Punished For: Killing the Prophets
- Matthew 23:37–38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! …
Punished For: Transgressing the Law
- Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
- Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you — a desolation demolished by strangers.
- Isaiah 24:5–6 The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. …
Punished For: Unbelief
- Romans 11:20 That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
Punishment of, for Rejecting and Killing Christ, Illustrated
- Matthew 21:37–43 Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. …
Received Proselytes from Other Nations
- Acts 2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,
- Exodus 12:44 But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- Exodus 12:48 If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no …
Religion of, According to Rites Prescribed by God
- Leviticus 18:4 You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:8–11 You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes. …
- Hebrews 9:1 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
Religion of, Typical
- Hebrews 9:8–11 By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. …
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Restored to Their own Land by Cyrus
- Ezra 1:1–4 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: …
Saints Remember
- Psalm 102:14 For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
- Psalm 137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
- Jeremiah 51:50 You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
Scattered Among the Nations
- Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Ezekiel 6:8 Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
- Ezekiel 36:19 I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.
Scattered and Peeled
- Isaiah 18:2 which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
- Isaiah 18:7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of …
- James 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.
Separated from all Other Nations
- Exodus 33:16 For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
- Leviticus 20:24 But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance — a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
- 1 Kings 8:53 For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”
Separated to God
- Exodus 33:16 For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
- Numbers 23:9 For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation — by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors — as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
Settled in Canaan
- Numbers 32:18 We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.
- Joshua 14:1–5 Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel. …
Shall Finally be Saved
- Romans 11:26–27 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. …
Sojourned in Egypt
- Exodus 12:40–41 Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years. …
Strengthened by God in War
- Leviticus 26:7–8 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. …
- Joshua 5:13–14 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?” …
- Joshua 8:1–2 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. …
Taken Captive to Assyria and Babylon
- 2 Kings 17:32 So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.
- 2 Kings 18:11 The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 24:16 The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths— all strong and fit for battle.
- 2 Kings 25:11 Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
The Covenant Established With
- Exodus 6:4 I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
- Exodus 24:6–8 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar. …
- Exodus 34:27 The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
The Gospel Preached To, First
- Matthew 10:6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
- Luke 24:47 and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
The Lord's Portion
- Deuteronomy 32:9 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
The Objects of God's Choice
- Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
The Objects of God's Love
- Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 23:5 Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
- Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
The Objects of God's Protection
- Psalm 105:15 “Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
- Zechariah 2:8 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you — for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye —
The Only People Who had Knowledge of God
- Psalm 76:1 God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- Psalm 48:3 God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
- Romans 1:28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
The Only People Who Worshipped God
- Exodus 5:17 “You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
- Psalm 96:5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
- Psalm 115:3–4 Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases. …
- John 4:22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
The People of God
- Deuteronomy 32:9 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
- 2 Samuel 7:24 For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
- Isaiah 51:16 I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
Their Country Trodden Under Foot by the Gentiles
- Deuteronomy 28:49–52 The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle — a nation whose language you will not understand, …
- Luke 21:24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Their House Left Desolate
- Matthew 24:38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Their National Greatness
- Genesis 12:2 I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
- Deuteronomy 33:29 Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
Their National Privileges
- Romans 3:2 Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
- Romans 9:4–5 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. …
Their Vast Numbers
- Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- Numbers 10:36 And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”
Trusted to Their Privileges for Salvation
- Jeremiah 7:4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
- Matthew 3:9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Unbelieving, Persecuted the Christians
- Acts 17:5 The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
- Acts 17:13 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews, …
Under God's Special Protection
- Deuteronomy 32:10–11 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye. …
- Deuteronomy 33:27–29 The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’ …
- Psalm 105:13–15 they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another. …
- Psalm 121:3–5 He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber. …
Under the Theocracy Until the Time of Samuel
- Exodus 19:4–6 ‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. …
- 1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.