11 Bible Verses about Relations With Foreigners
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David went from there to Mizpah of Moab, and he told the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother come and stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."
So David got up, and he and the 600 men who were with him went to Maoch's son Achish, the king of Gath.
Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon.
There were also many lepers in Israel in the prophet Elisha's time, yet not one of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."
Until some men arrived from James, he was in the habit of eating with the gentiles, but after those men came, he withdrew from the gentiles and would not associate with them any longer, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.
But King Solomon married many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidonia, along with Hittite women, too,
For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with practices learned from the East and they are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They cut deals with foreigners.
because if you ever turn back and cling to those who remain of these nations by intermarrying with them and associating one with another,
so that strangers don't enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won't end up the possession of foreigners.
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