STRANGER(S)
(See FOREIGNER)
examples of:
♦ Israel:
♦ Abraham:
• Genesis 23:4 (cf. Hebrews 11:13)
♦ certain persons among Israel:
• Joshua 8:33; 20:9
♦ regulations for Israel concerning
• Exodus 12:48-49; 22:21; 23:12; Leviticus 19:10, 33-34; 24:22; 25:47-49; Deuteronomy 16:11-14; 26:12; Joshua 20:9
♦ used of the godly in their earthly sojourn
♦ general principles concerning
♦ improper treatment of
proper treatment of:
♦ visit strangers:
• Matthew 25:35, 38
♦ show hospitality to strangers:
• 1 Timothy 5:10; Hebrews 13:2; 3 John 5-6
with reference to Gentiles:
♦ strangers to the covenants of promise in their unbelief:
♦ as believers no longer spiritual strangers but saints and in God's household:
♦ figurative use of
various other uses:
♦ persecution from strangers:
♦ protection of strangers by the Lord:
♦ desolation of Israel by strangers (i.e., a foreign nation):
♦ divine provision for strangers:
♦ Israel honored and served by strangers:
• Isaiah 14:1; 61:5
♦ Israel's love and service of strangers (i.e., idolatrous foreign nations):
♦ divine judgment of Israel through strangers (i.e., a foreign nation):
♦ God's future protection of Zion from destruction by strangers:
♦ potter's field as a burial place for strangers:
♦ speaking by lips of strangers to Jews (i.e., languages foreign to Jews):
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.