Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Foreign’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Foreign’ occurs 112 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 17:27 And all the men of his house, those born in his house, as well as those who were bought, even the foreigners, were circumcised with him.Genesis 17:27
Genesis 31:15 Has he not considered us as foreigners, and sold us, and consumed our price?Genesis 31:15
Genesis 35:2 In truth, Jacob, having called together all his house, said: “Cast away the foreign gods that are in your midst and be cleansed, and also change your garments.Genesis 35:2
Genesis 35:4 Therefore, they gave him all the foreign gods which they had, and the earrings which were in their ears. And then he buried them under the terebinth tree, which is beyond the city of Shechem.Genesis 35:4
Genesis 42:7 and he had recognized them, he spoke harshly, as if to foreigners, questioning them: “Where did you come from?” And they responded, “From the land of Canaan, to buy necessary provisions.”Genesis 42:7
Number of the word / term Foreign in Genesis: 5
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 2:22 And she bore a son to him, whom he called Gershom, saying, “I have been a newcomer in a foreign land.” In truth, she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying, “For the God of my father, my helper, has rescued me from the hand of Pharaoh.”Exodus 2:22
Exodus 12:43 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron: “This is the religious observance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat from it.Exodus 12:43
Exodus 18:3 and her two sons, of whom one was called Gershom, (for his father said, “I have been a newcomer in a foreign land,”)Exodus 18:3
Exodus 21:8 If she displeases the eyes of her lord, to whom she had been delivered, he shall dismiss her. But he shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, even if he despises her.Exodus 21:8
Exodus 23:13 Preserve all that I have said to you. And by the names of foreign gods you shall not swear; neither shall these be heard from your mouth.Exodus 23:13
Number of the word / term Foreign in Exodus: 5
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 22:10 No foreigner shall eat from what has been sanctified; a guest of the priests and a hired servant shall not eat from them.Leviticus 22:10
Leviticus 22:13 But if she is a widow or divorced, and, being without children, she returns to her father’s house, she shall be nourished by her father’s foods, just as she was accustomed to do as a girl. No foreigner shall have the authority to eat from them.Leviticus 22:13
Leviticus 22:25 From the hand of a foreigner, you shall not offer bread to your God, nor anything else that he would choose to give; for all this has been corrupted and blemished. You shall not accept them.Leviticus 22:25
Leviticus 26:8 Five of yours will pursue a hundred foreigners, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall by the sword in your sight.Leviticus 26:8
Number of the word / term Foreign in Leviticus: 4
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 3:38 Moses and Aaron, with their sons, shall make camp before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is, on the east side, holding the custody of the Sanctuary in the midst of the sons of Israel. Whatever foreigner approaches it shall die.Numbers 3:38
Numbers 18:4 But they may be with you, and they may watch over the care of the tabernacle and all its ceremonies. A foreigner shall not be mixed with you.Numbers 18:4
Number of the word / term Foreign in Numbers: 2
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 7:4 For she will seduce your son, so that he will not follow me, and so that he will instead serve foreign gods. And the fury of the Lord will be enraged, and he will quickly destroy you.Deuteronomy 7:4
Deuteronomy 8:19 But if you forget the Lord your God, so that you follow foreign gods, and serve and adore them: behold, I now foretell to you that you shall utterly perish.Deuteronomy 8:19
Deuteronomy 11:28 It will be a curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but instead you withdraw from the way, which I am revealing to you now, and you walk after foreign gods that you have not known.Deuteronomy 11:28
Deuteronomy 13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your own son or daughter, or your wife who is in your bosom, or your friend, whom you love like your own soul, were willing to persuade you secretly, saying: ‘Let us go, and serve foreign gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,Deuteronomy 13:6
Deuteronomy 17:3 so as to go and serve foreign gods and adore them, such as the sun and the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not instructed,Deuteronomy 17:3
Deuteronomy 18:20 But if a prophet, having been corrupted by arrogance, chooses to speak, in my name, things which I did not instruct him to say, or to speak in the name of foreign gods, he shall be put to death.Deuteronomy 18:20
Deuteronomy 23:20 but only to a foreigner. For you shall lend to your brother whatever he needs without interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your works in the land, which you shall enter so as to possess it.Deuteronomy 23:20
Deuteronomy 28:36 May the Lord lead you and your king, whom you will have appointed over yourself, into a nation which you and your fathers have not known. And there you will serve foreign gods, of wood and of stone.Deuteronomy 28:36
Deuteronomy 28:64 The Lord will disperse you among all the peoples, from the heights of the earth to its furthest limits. And there you will serve foreign gods of wood and of stone, which you and your fathers did not know.Deuteronomy 28:64
Deuteronomy 29:26 And they have served foreign gods, and adored them, though they did not know them, and though they had not been allotted to them.Deuteronomy 29:26
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this people will rise up and will fornicate after foreign gods, in the land which they will enter so that they may live in it. In that place, they will forsake me, and they will make void the covenant that I have formed with them.Deuteronomy 31:16
Deuteronomy 31:20 For I will lead them into the land, about which I swore to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and have been satiated and fattened, they will turn aside to foreign gods, and they will serve them. And they will disparage me, and they will nullify my covenant.Deuteronomy 31:20
Number of the word / term Foreign in Deuteronomy: 12
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 24:16 And the people responded, and they said: “Far be it from us that we would forsake the Lord, and serve foreign gods.Joshua 24:16
Joshua 24:20 If you leave behind the Lord, and you serve foreign gods, he will turn himself, and he will afflict you, and he will overthrow you, after all the good that he has offered to you.”Joshua 24:20
Number of the word / term Foreign in Joshua: 2
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Judges
Judges 2:12 And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had led them away from the land of Egypt. And they followed foreign gods and the gods of the peoples who were living around them, and they adored them. And they provoked the Lord to wrath,Judges 2:12
Judges 2:17 Fornicating with foreign gods and adoring them, they quickly deserted the way along which their fathers had advanced. And having heard the commandments of the Lord, they did all things to the contrary.Judges 2:17
Judges 10:13 And yet you have forsaken me, and you have worshipped foreign gods. For this reason, I will not continue to free you any more.Judges 10:13
Judges 10:16 And saying these things, they cast out all the idols of the foreign gods from their regions, and they served the Lord God. And he was touched by their miseries.Judges 10:16
Judges 19:12 His lord responded to him: “I will not enter into the town of a foreign people, who are not of the sons of Israel. Instead, I will cross over as far as Gibeah.Judges 19:12
Number of the word / term Foreign in Judges: 5
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Ruth
Ruth 2:10 She, falling on her face and paying homage on the ground, said to him: “How did this happen to me, that I should find favor before your eyes, and that you would condescend to accept me, a foreign woman?”Ruth 2:10
Number of the word / term Foreign in Ruth: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 8:8 In accord with all their works, which they have done from the day when I led them away from Egypt, even to this day: just as they have forsaken me, and served foreign gods, so now they also do to you.1 Samuel 8:8
Number of the word / term Foreign in 1 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 22:45 The sons of foreigners, who will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will be obedient to me.2 Samuel 22:45
2 Samuel 22:46 The foreigners flowed away, but they will be drawn together in their anguishes.2 Samuel 22:46
Number of the word / term Foreign in 2 Samuel: 2
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 8:41 Moreover, the foreigner too, who is not of your people Israel, when he will have arrived from a distant land because of your name, for they shall hear about your great name, and your strong hand,1 Kings 8:41
1 Kings 8:43 you will listen in heaven, in the firmament of your dwelling place. And you will do all the things, for which that foreigner will have called upon you. So may all the peoples of the earth learn to fear your name, just as your people Israel do. And so may they show that your name has been invoked over this house, which I have built.1 Kings 8:43
1 Kings 11:1 But king Solomon loved many foreign women, including the daughter of Pharaoh, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Idumea, and of Sidon, and of the Hittites.1 Kings 11:1
1 Kings 11:8 And he acted in this manner for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and immolating to their gods.1 Kings 11:8
Number of the word / term Foreign in 1 Kings: 4
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 17:35 And he had struck a covenant with them, and he had commanded them, saying: “You shall not fear foreign gods, and you shall not adore them, and you shall not worship them, and you shall not sacrifice to them.2 Kings 17:35
2 Kings 19:24 I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’2 Kings 19:24
2 Kings 22:17 For they have abandoned me, and they have sacrificed to foreign gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands. And so my indignation will be kindled against this place. And it will not be extinguished.2 Kings 22:17
Number of the word / term Foreign in 2 Kings: 3
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 7:22 And they shall respond: ‘Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who led them away from the land of Egypt, and they took hold of foreign gods, and they adored and worshipped them. Therefore, all these evils have overwhelmed them.’ ”2 Chronicles 7:22
2 Chronicles 14:2 Now Asa did what was good and pleasing in the sight of his God. And he overturned the altars of foreign worship, and the high places.2 Chronicles 14:2
2 Chronicles 33:15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol from the house of the Lord, and also the altars which he had made on the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem. And he cast all these things outside the city.2 Chronicles 33:15
2 Chronicles 34:25 For they have abandoned me, and they have sacrificed to foreign gods, so that they provoked me to wrath by all the works of their hands. Therefore, my fury will rain down upon this place, and it will not be extinguished.2 Chronicles 34:25
Number of the word / term Foreign in 2 Chronicles: 4
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Ezra
Ezra 10:2 And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, from the sons of Elam, responded and said to Ezra: “We have sinned against our God, and have taken foreign wives from the peoples of the land. And now, if there is repentance within Israel over this,Ezra 10:2
Ezra 10:10 And Ezra, the priest, rose up, and he said to them: “You have transgressed, and you have taken foreign wives, so that you added to the offenses of Israel.Ezra 10:10
Ezra 10:11 And now, make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do what pleases him, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from your foreign wives.”Ezra 10:11
Ezra 10:14 let leaders be appointed among the entire multitude. And in all our cities, let those who have taken foreign wives arrive at appointed times, and with them the elders from city to city, and the judges, until the wrath of our God has been averted from us over this sin.”Ezra 10:14
Ezra 10:17 And they made an end with all the men who had taken foreign wives, by the first day of the first month.Ezra 10:17
Ezra 10:18 And there were found among the sons of the priests some who had taken foreign wives: From the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.Ezra 10:18
Ezra 10:44 All these had taken foreign wives, and there were among them women who had borne sons.Ezra 10:44
Number of the word / term Foreign in Ezra: 7
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 9:2 And the offspring of the sons of Israel were separated from all the sons of foreigners. And they stood up, and they confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.Nehemiah 9:2
Nehemiah 13:3 Now it happened that, when they had heard the law, they separated every foreigner from Israel.Nehemiah 13:3
Nehemiah 13:26 “Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin in this kind of thing? And certainly, among many nations, there was no king similar to him, and he was beloved of his God, and God set him as king over all of Israel. And yet foreign women led even him into sin!Nehemiah 13:26
Nehemiah 13:27 So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?”Nehemiah 13:27
Nehemiah 13:30 And so I cleansed them from all foreigners, and I established the orders of the priests and the Levites, each one in his ministry.Nehemiah 13:30
Number of the word / term Foreign in Nehemiah: 5
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Job
Job 31:32 for the foreigner did not remain at the door, my door was open to the traveler;Job 31:32
Number of the word / term Foreign in Job: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 18:45 The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.Psalm 18:45
Psalm 44:21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,Psalm 44:21
Psalm 58:3 Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.Psalm 58:3
Psalm 60:8 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.Psalm 60:8
Psalm 81:9 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.Psalm 81:9
Psalm 83:7 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.Psalm 83:7
Psalm 87:4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.Psalm 87:4
Psalm 105:12 Though they may have been but a small number, very few and foreigners there,Psalm 105:12
Psalm 108:9 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. I will extend my shoe in Idumea; the foreigners have become my friends.Psalm 108:9
Psalm 109:11 May the money lenders scrutinize all his belongings, and let foreigners plunder his labors.Psalm 109:11
Psalm 137:4 How can we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?Psalm 137:4
Psalm 144:7 Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.Psalm 144:7
Psalm 144:11 Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of foreigners. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.Psalm 144:11
Number of the word / term Foreign in Psalm: 13
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 2:16 So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,Proverbs 2:16
Proverbs 5:9 Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.Proverbs 5:9
Proverbs 5:10 Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,Proverbs 5:10
Proverbs 21:8 The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.Proverbs 21:8
Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.Proverbs 22:14
Proverbs 23:27 For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.Proverbs 23:27
Proverbs 27:13 Take away the garment of him who has vouched for an outsider. And take a pledge from him on behalf of foreigners.Proverbs 27:13
Number of the word / term Foreign in Proverbs: 7
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate. Your cities have been set ablaze. Foreigners devour your countryside in your sight, and it will become desolate, as if devastated by enemies.Isaiah 1:7
Isaiah 2:6 For you have cast aside your people, the house of Jacob, because they have been filled up, as in past times, and because they have had soothsayers as the Philistines have, and because they have joined themselves to foreign servants.Isaiah 2:6
Isaiah 17:10 For you have forgotten God your Savior, and you have not remembered your strong Helper. Because of this, you will plant trustworthy plants, but you will sow a foreign seed.Isaiah 17:10
Isaiah 25:2 For you have appointed a city as a tomb, a strong city for ruination, a house of foreigners: so that it may not be a city, and so that it may not be rebuilt forever.Isaiah 25:2
Isaiah 25:5 You will bring low the uprising of foreigners, just as heat brings thirst. And like heat under a torrential cloud, you will cause the offshoot of the strong to wither away.Isaiah 25:5
Isaiah 28:21 For the Lord will stand, just as at the mountain of divisions. He will be angry, just as in the valley which is in Gibeon, so that he may accomplish his work, his strange work, so that he may complete his work, his work which is foreign even to him.Isaiah 28:21
Isaiah 61:5 And foreigners will stand up and will pasture your flocks. And the sons of sojourners will be your farmers and the workers of your vineyards.Isaiah 61:5
Isaiah 62:8 The Lord has sworn with his right hand and with the arm of his strength: “Certainly, I will no longer permit your grain to be the food of your enemies. And the sons of foreigners will not drink your wine, for which you have labored.”Isaiah 62:8
Number of the word / term Foreign in Isaiah: 8
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 19:4 For they have abandoned me, and they have made this place foreign, and they have offered libations in it to foreign gods, whom neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.Jeremiah 19:4
Jeremiah 22:26 And I will send you, and your mother who conceived you, into a foreign land, in which you were not born, and there you shall die.Jeremiah 22:26
Number of the word / term Foreign in Jeremiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Lamentations
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.Lamentations 5:2
Number of the word / term Foreign in Lamentations: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 7:21 And I will give it into the hands of foreigners as a spoil, and to the impious of the earth as a prey, and they will defile it.Ezekiel 7:21
Ezekiel 28:7 for this reason, behold, I will lead over you foreigners, the most robust among the Gentiles. And they will bare their swords over the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your beauty.Ezekiel 28:7
Ezekiel 28:10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hand of foreigners. For I have spoken, says the Lord God.”Ezekiel 28:10
Ezekiel 30:12 And I will cause the channels of the rivers to dry up. And I will deliver the land into the hand of the most wicked. And by the hands of foreigners, I will utterly destroy the land and its plenitude. I, the Lord, have spoken.Ezekiel 30:12
Ezekiel 31:12 And foreigners, and the most cruel among the nations, will cut him down. And they will cast him on the mountains. And his branches will fall in every steep valley, and his grove will be broken apart on every cliff of the earth. And all the peoples of the earth will withdraw from his shadow, and abandon him.Ezekiel 31:12
Ezekiel 44:7 For you bring in foreign sons, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, so that they may be in my sanctuary and may defile my house. And you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood, yet you have broken my covenant by all your wicked deeds.Ezekiel 44:7
Ezekiel 44:9 Thus says the Lord God: Any foreigner, any foreign son who is in the midst of the sons of Israel, who is uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall not enter into my sanctuary.Ezekiel 44:9
Number of the word / term Foreign in Ezekiel: 7
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Obadiah
Obadiah 1:11 In the day when you stood against him, when strangers seized his army, and foreigners entered into his gates, and they cast lots over Jerusalem: you also were just like one of them.Obadiah 1:11
Number of the word / term Foreign in Obadiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 17:26 And he said, “From foreigners.” Jesus said to him: “Then the sons are free.Matthew 17:26
Number of the word / term Foreign in Matthew: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Acts
Acts 7:6 Then God told him that his offspring would be a settler in a foreign land, and that they would subjugate them, and treat them badly, for four hundred years.Acts 7:6
Acts 7:29 Then, at this word, Moses fled. And he became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he produced two sons.Acts 7:29
Acts 10:28 And he said to them: “You know how abominable it would be for a Jewish man to be joined with, or to be added to, a foreign people. But God has revealed to me to call no man common or unclean.Acts 10:28
Acts 26:11 And in every synagogue, frequently while punishing them, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being all the more maddened against them, I persecuted them, even to foreign cities.Acts 26:11
Number of the word / term Foreign in Acts: 4
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 14:11 Therefore, if I do not understand the nature of the voice, then I shall be like a foreigner to the one with whom I am speaking; and he who is speaking will be like a foreigner to me.1 Corinthians 14:11
Number of the word / term Foreign in 1 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Ephesians
Ephesians 2:12 and that you were, in that time, without Christ, being foreign to the way of life of Israel, being visitors to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and being without God in this world.Ephesians 2:12
Number of the word / term Foreign in Ephesians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Colossians
Colossians 1:21 And you, though you had been, in times past, understood to be foreigners and enemies, with works of evil,Colossians 1:21
Number of the word / term Foreign in Colossians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Foreign’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 11:9 By faith, he stayed in the Land of the Promise as if in a foreign land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.Hebrews 11:9
Hebrews 11:34 extinguished the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered from infirmities, showed strength in battle, turned back the armies of foreigners.Hebrews 11:34
Number of the word / term ‘Foreign’ in Hebrews: 2
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 112
