'Scattered Abroad' in the Bible

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered [abroad] and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people, and they do not observe the king’s laws. Therefore it is not in the king’s interest to [tolerate them and] let them stay here.

“The lion perishes for lack of prey,And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Now those [believers] who had been scattered went from place to place preaching the word [the good news of salvation through Christ].

James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve [Hebrew] tribes [scattered abroad among the Gentiles] in the dispersion: Greetings (rejoice)!