'People' in the Bible
"If you rebel, I will scatter you among the nations but if you return to me, keeping my commands and doing them, even if your exiled people are in the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my Name.'
These are your servants as well as your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.
So we rebuilt the wall, completing it halfway up, because the people were committed to working.
Meanwhile, the people of Judah said, "The builders are tired and there's so much rubble that we can't reconstruct the wall!"
So I stationed the people by families behind the wall in the lower exposed areas, equipping them with their swords, spears, and bows.
Looking things over, I stood up and spoke to the officials, the military leaders, and the rest of the people: "Don't fear them. Remember the great and awe-inspiring Lord. Fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes."
I told the officials, rulers, and the rest of the people, "The project is large and extensive, and we are separated from each other on the wall,
At the same time I told the people, "Let's have everyone sleep at night inside Jerusalem with their servants, so they can guard us at night and work during the day.
Now the people along with their spouses complained loudly against their fellow Jews,
So I called the priests and made them take an oath to fulfill this promise. I also shook my robes, and said, "May God shake out every man from his house and his possessions who does not keep this promise. May he be emptied out and shaken just like this." All the assembly said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. And the people kept their promise.
Nevertheless, the former governors before me placed a heavy burden on the people. They received food and wine, plus a tax of 40 shekels of silver. Even their young men took advantage of the people, but I never did so because I feared God.
Our daily requirements were one ox and six choice sheep, along with various kinds of poultry prepared for me. Every ten days there was a delivery of an abundant supply of wine. Despite all this, I refused the governor's allotment, because demands on the people were heavy.
"Remember me with favor, my God, for everything I've done for this people."
Even though the city was large and spread out, not many people were living there and not many houses had been built.
So my God gave me the idea to gather together the nobles, the officials, and the people so they could be registered according to their genealogies.
People from Bethlehem and Netophah: 188
People from Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth: 743
People from Ramah and Geba: 621
These people searched for their ancestral records, but they couldn't be located. Accordingly, they were considered disqualified from the priesthood.
The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver units, and 67 priestly garments.
The priests, descendants of Levi, gatekeepers, singers, some of the people, the Temple Servants, and all the Israelis settled in their cities.
So on the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought out the Law before the assembled people. Both men and women were in attendance, as well as all who could understand what they were hearing.
Ezra read from it, facing the plaza in front of the Water Gate, from early in the morning until mid-day in the presence of the men and women, as well as all who could understand. All the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.
Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people. Because he was visible above all the people there, as he opened it, all the people stood up.
Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with uplifted hands, all the people responded, "Amen! Amen!" They bowed down and worshipped the LORD prostrate on the ground.
Seven months later, the Israelis had settled in their own cities.
All the people gathered as a united body into the plaza in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
Because all the people were weeping as they listened to the words of the Law, Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the descendants of Levi who taught the people told everyone, "This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep."
The descendants of Levi also calmed all the people by saying, "Be still, for the day is holy. Don't be sorrowful!"
So all the people went to eat, to drink, to send something to those who had nothing, and to celebrate with great joy, because they understood the words that were being declared to them.
The next day, the heads of the families of all the people were gathered together, along with the priests and the descendants of Levi, to meet with Ezra the scribe in order to understand the words of the Law.
Then the people went out and found branches to make tents for themselves on the roofs of their houses, in their courtyards, and in the courts of God's Temple, in the plaza near the Water Gate, and in the plaza near the Gate of Ephraim.
You sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all of his officials, and against all the people of his land, because you knew they acted arrogantly against your people. So you established your name with them, as it remains to this day.
"Then they disobeyed, rebelled against you, and threw your Law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who had admonished the people to return to you, committing terrible blasphemies.
You were patient with them for many years, warning them by your Spirit through your prophets. But they would not listen, so you turned them over to the control of people in other lands.
"Now therefore, our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God, who keeps the covenant and gracious love, don't let all of the difficulties seem trifling to you, all of hardships that have come upon us, upon our kings, upon our leaders, upon our priests, upon our prophets, upon our ancestors, and upon all of your people from the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.
The leaders of the people included Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
The rest of the people, the priests, the descendants of Levi, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Temple Servants, and everyone who had separated themselves from the nations of the surrounding lands for the Law of God their wives, their sons, their daughters, and all who had knowledge and understanding
"We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.
As for the people of the land who bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. We will forego planting crops, and we will cancel debts during every seventh year."
We the priests, the descendants of Levi, and the people cast lots to determine when to bring the wood offering into the Temple of our God, just as our ancestors' families were appointed annually to maintain the altar fire of the LORD our God, as recorded in the Law.
The leaders of the people who lived in Jerusalem, along with the rest of the people, decided to choose one out of ten of them by lot to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, leaving the other nine of them in their towns.
And the people blessed all of the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.
Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, a descendant of Zerah son of Judah, represented the king in all matters concerning the people.
Now concerning the villages and their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, in Dibon and its villages, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
The priests and the descendants of Levi purified themselves, and also purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
The second thanksgiving choir approached opposite them, and I followed them. Half of the people stood on the crest of the wall from beyond the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,
Also at that time men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, so those portions required by the Law could be gathered from the fields adjacent to the towns to benefit the priests and descendants of Levi, for the people of Judah rejoiced over the priests and the descendants of Levi who were serving.
Later that day the book of Moses was read aloud so the people could hear it, and a written command was discovered therein permanently prohibiting the Ammonites and Moabites from coming into the congregation of God
Furthermore, Tyrians were living there who were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise, selling them to the people of Judah on the Sabbath, even in Jerusalem.
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- How People Eat
- Humble People
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- Killing Many People
- Knowing People
- Learning From Other People
- Leaving People Alone
- Light Of God's People
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- 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
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- Obeying People
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- People Actually Doing Evil
- People Appalled
- People Appearing
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- 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
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- People Naming People
- People Naming Things
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- People Parting
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- People Polluting Themselves
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- People Possibly Doing Evil
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- People Remembering
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- People Rotting
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- 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
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- People Who Did Right
- People Who Didn't Die
- People Willing
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- People not returning
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- Poor People
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- Possible For People
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- Price Of People
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- Those Jealous For People
- Those Jealous Of People
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- Training Young People
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- Trusting Other People
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- Unity, Of God's People
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- Useful People
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- Virtues Of Young People
- Wealthy People
- Welcoming Other People
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- Where People Live To This Day
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