'People' in the Bible
They mourned, wept, and fasted until the evening for those who died by the sword—for Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord’s people, and the house of Israel.
Now take action, because the Lord has spoken concerning David: ‘Through My servant David I will save My people Israel from the power of the Philistines and the power of all Israel’s enemies.’”
David then ordered Joab and all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David walked behind the funeral procession.
When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept,
Your hands were not bound,your feet not placed in bronze shackles.You fell like one who falls victim to criminals.And all the people wept over him even more.
All the people took note of this, and it pleased them. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.
Even while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led us out to battle and brought us back. The Lord also said to you, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel and be ruler over Israel.’”
Then David knew that the Lord had established him as king over Israel and had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.
When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Hosts.
Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women. Then all the people left, each to his own home.
David replied to Michal, “I was dancing before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the Lord,
In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked anyone among the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel: Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
“Now this is what you are to say to My servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from following the sheep to be ruler over My people Israel.
I will establish a place for My people Israel and plant them, so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not afflict them as they have done
ever since the day I ordered judges to be over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies.“‘The Lord declares to you: The Lord Himself will make a house for you.
And who is like Your people Israel? God came to one nation on earth in order to redeem a people for Himself, to make a name for Himself, and to perform for them great and awesome acts, driving out nations and their gods before Your people You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
You established Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, Lord, have become their God.
So David reigned over all Israel, administering justice and righteousness for all his people.
Be strong! We must prove ourselves strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May the Lord’s will be done.”
He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man who was standing watch looked up, there were many people coming from the road west of him from the side of the mountain.
The woman asked, “Why have you devised something similar against the people of God? When the king spoke as he did about this matter, he has pronounced his own guilt. The king has not brought back his own banished one.
“Now therefore, I’ve come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought: I must speak to the king. Perhaps the king will grant his servant’s request.
While he was offering the sacrifices, Absalom sent for David’s adviser Ahithophel the Gilonite, from his city of Giloh. So the conspiracy grew strong, and the people supporting Absalom continued to increase.
So the king set out, and all the people followed him. They stopped at the last house
Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly while all the people were marching past. As the king was crossing the Kidron Valley, all the people were marching past on the road that leads to the desert.
Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until the people had finished marching past.
David was climbing the slope of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he ascended. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. Each of the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they ascended.
He threw stones at David and at all the royal servants, the people and the warriors on David’s right and left.
Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived exhausted, so they rested there.
“Not at all,” Hushai answered Absalom. “I am on the side of the one that the Lord, the people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. I will stay with him.
I will attack him while he is weak and weary, throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will scatter. I will strike down only the king
and bring all the people back to you. When everyone returns except the man you’re seeking, all the people will be at peace.”
Hushai continued, “You know your father and his men. They are warriors and are desperate like a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier who won’t spend the night with the people.
He’s probably already hiding in one of the caves or some other place. If some of our troops fall first, someone is sure to hear and say, ‘There’s been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’
Now send someone quickly and tell David, ‘Don’t spend the night at the wilderness ford of the Jordan, but be sure to cross over, or the king and all the people with him will be destroyed.’”
So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one who had not crossed the Jordan.
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and the people with him to eat. They had reasoned, “The people must be hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the desert.”
“You must not go!” the people pleaded. “If we have to flee, they will not pay any attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not pay any attention to us because you are worth 10,000 of us. Therefore, it is better if you support us from the city.”
The king commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” All the people heard the king’s orders to all the commanders about Absalom.
The people of Israel were defeated by David’s soldiers, and the slaughter there was vast that day—20,000 casualties.
The battle spread over the entire region, and that day the forest claimed more people than the sword.
So they returned to the city quietly that day like people come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.
So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Look, the king is sitting in the gate.” Then they all came into the king’s presence.Meanwhile, each Israelite had fled to his tent.
All the people among all the tribes of Israel were arguing: “The king delivered us from the grasp of our enemies, and he rescued us from the grasp of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom.
So all the people crossed the Jordan, and then the king crossed. The king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and Barzillai returned to his home.
Now Amasa was writhing in his blood in the middle of the highway, and the man had seen that all the people stopped. So he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment over him because he realized that all those who encountered Amasa were stopping.
The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.
You rescue an afflicted people,but Your eyes are set against the proud—You humble them.
You have freed me from the feuds among my people;You have appointed me the head of nations;a people I had not known serve me.
The God of Israel spoke;the Rock of Israel said to me,“The one who rules the people with justice,who rules in the fear of God,
The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and He stirred up David against them to say: “Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.”
Then the angel extended his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, but the Lord relented concerning the destruction and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough, withdraw your hand now!” The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
When David saw the angel striking the people, he said to the Lord, “Look, I am the one who has sinned; I am the one who has done wrong. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand be against me and my father’s family.”
Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”David replied, “To buy the threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to the Lord, so the plague on the people may be halted.”
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- Five People
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- Forgetting People
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- God Strengthening People
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- God Testing People
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- God's Knowledge Of People
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- Handing Over People
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- Heart, Of Unregenerate People
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- Humble People
- Imitating Good People
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- Importunity, Towards People
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- Judgement On Old People
- Killing Many People
- Knowing People
- Learning From Other People
- Leaving People Alone
- Light Of God's People
- Like Bad People
- Like Good People
- Like People By Nature
- Like People In Character
- Likening People
- Limitations Of Old People
- Looking At People For Evil
- Looking Intently At People
- Lost People
- Love Exists Between People
- Lowering People
- Making People Holy
- Marks On People
- Marriage, Between God And His People
- Meeting People
- Memorials For People
- Mixing People
- Named People Angry With Others
- Neglecting People
- No Water For People
- Not Believing People
- Not Knowing People
- Not Like People
- Not Pleasing People
- Not Recognising People
- Not Seeing People
- Not Seeking People
- Not Welcoming People
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- Obeying People
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- Other Unimportant People
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- People Abandoning People
- People Accusing People
- People Acting Madly
- People Actually Doing Evil
- People Appalled
- People Appearing
- People Are Corruptible
- People Are The Same
- People As Rocks
- People As Signs
- People Attacking Their Own
- People Beginning
- People Being Hated
- People Being Polluted
- People Being Silent
- People Being Unclean
- People Belong To God
- People Blessing
- People Bound By Oaths
- People Carrying Live People
- People Casting Out Demons
- People Changing Their Minds
- People Commended By God
- People Consuming Blood
- People Converted
- People Cut In Pieces
- People Destroying Foreign Nations
- People Drying Things Up
- People Eaten By Worm
- People Eating
- People Encouraging Others
- People Ended
- People Exiled
- People Falling From A Height
- People Following People
- People Forgiving Others
- People Freeing Slaves
- People From Far Away
- People Getting Up
- People Giving Clothes
- People Giving Other Things
- People Going Astray
- People Going Before
- People Have Honour
- People Helping
- People Helping Orphans
- People Hiding People
- People Hung To Death
- People Improved
- People In Caves
- People In Righteousness
- People Involved In Judgement
- People Jumping
- People Keeping
- People Kissing
- People Lacking Authority
- People Made Known
- People Made Perfect
- People Making Drunk
- People Mourning Catastrophe
- People Multiplying
- People Naming People
- People Naming Things
- People Not Abandoning
- People Not Far Away
- People Of God, In Nt
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- People Of Judah
- People Of The Kingdom
- People Opposed
- People Ostracised
- People Overcoming
- People Parting
- People Passing Away
- People Polluting Themselves
- People Possessing Other Things
- People Possibly Doing Evil
- People Promising
- People Providing
- People Providing Food
- People Refreshed
- People Releasing Others
- People Remembering
- People Renaming People
- People Rotting
- People Sending Creatures
- People Sending People
- People Set Free By People
- People Shaking
- People Showing Mercy
- People Sitting Down
- People Stripping Off
- People Stripping People
- People Stumbling
- People Teaching
- People Torn To Pieces
- People Transformed
- People Tumbling
- People Unwashed
- People Unwilling
- People Visiting
- People Waiting
- People Wearing Out
- People Who Blessed Others
- People Who Delayed
- People Who Did Right
- People Who Didn't Die
- People Willing
- People With Apt Names
- People With General Knowledge
- People With Knowledge
- People Withered
- People Without Mercy
- People not returning
- People's Inability To Save
- People's Inability To Serve God
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- Poor People
- Possibilities For People
- Possible For People
- Praising Specific People
- Predestined People
- Price Of People
- Problem People
- Proud People
- Pulling People
- Pure People
- Pursuing People
- Rash People
- Recognising People
- Reinstating People
- Rejecting People
- Remembering People
- Removing People From Your Life
- Renewal, Of People Of God
- Reproving People
- Resentment, Against People
- Respect For Old People
- Respect For People
- Reward, For God's People
- Right Time For People
- Robbing People
- Rules About Young People
- Saul And David
- Saving People
- Scattering The Peoples
- Seeing People
- Seeking But Not Finding People
- Sending people home
- Separation From Evil People
- Servants Of People
- Serving People
- Seven People
- Shaming People
- Short People
- Side Of People
- Six People
- Skilled People
- Snares Laid for People
- Stiffnecked People
- Stingy People
- Strength Of People
- Striking People With A Staff
- Strong People
- Subtracting From People
- Taking Other People
- Tall People
- Telling Of People's Situations
- Telling What People Did
- Telling What People Said
- Ten People
- Thanking God For People
- Thanks To People
- The Devil Tempting People
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- Things Like People
- Those Jealous For People
- Those Jealous Of People
- Those Looking For People
- Those Subjected To People
- Throwing People
- Times Of People
- Tithing For People
- Training Young People
- Trampling People
- Troubling Groups Of People
- Trusting Other People
- Two People
- Unfaithfulness, To People
- Unified People
- Unity, Of God's People
- Unmarried People
- Unnamed People Angry With Others
- Unrelated People
- Useful People
- Useless People
- Valuation Of People
- Virtues Of Young People
- Wealthy People
- Welcoming Other People
- Where Are People?
- Where People Live To This Day
- Why Do People Not Do This?
- Why People Did Things
- Worthy People
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