Quotes about Foreign
Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
- Ezra 10:18
All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
- Ezra 10:44
As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.
- Nehemiah 13:3
Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
- Nehemiah 13:27
Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
- Nehemiah 13:30
He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
- Psalm 81:5
When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
- Psalm 114:1
Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people
- Isaiah 28:11
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- Isaiah 37:25
I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
- Isaiah 43:12
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
- Jeremiah 2:25
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- Jeremiah 8:19