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LXX Concordance for ἔθνη

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ἔθνη — 250x G1484 ἔθνος
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Occurrences: 160 times in 152 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Accusative Plural Neuter
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 -

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and [fn]defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in [fn]Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 -

“I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:16 - “I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will [fn]come from her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - “As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:16 - These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; twelve princes according to their [fn]tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 -

“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My [fn]feast to remain overnight until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:27 - “I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - “For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are on the face of the [fn]earth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - “For I will [fn]drive out nations from you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - ‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 -

“God brings him out of Egypt,

He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.

He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,

And will crush their bones,

And smash them with his arrows.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 -

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to take possession of it, and He drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6 - “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the [fn]earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7 -

“The LORD did not [fn]make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14 - “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no sterile male or infertile female among you or among your cattle.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - “And the LORD your God will drive away these nations from you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, otherwise the [fn]wild animals would become too numerous for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 -

“Hear, Israel! You are crossing the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities that are great and fortified to heaven,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:4 -

“Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them away from [fn]you, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to take possession of this land.' Rather, it is because of the [fn]wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - “Yet the LORD set His affection on your fathers, to love them, and He chose their [fn]descendants after them, you over all the other peoples, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - then the LORD will [fn]dispossess all these nations from you, and you will [fn]dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:29 -

“When the LORD your God cuts off from you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and live in their land,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 -

“When you enter the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you take possession of it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will appoint a king over me like all the nations who are around me,'

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:14 - “For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 -

“When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64 - “Furthermore, the LORD will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to [fn]the other; and there you will serve other gods, made of wood and stone, which you and your fathers have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - “All the nations will say, ‘Why has the LORD done all this to this land? Why this great [fn]outburst of anger?'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3 - “It is the LORD your God who is going to cross ahead of you; He Himself will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who is going to cross ahead of you, just as the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 -

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of [fn]mankind,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the [fn]sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17 -

As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,

And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;

With them he will gore the peoples

All [fn]at once, to the ends of the earth.

And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,

And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:19 -

“They will call peoples to the mountain;

There they will offer righteous sacrifices;

For they will [fn]draw out the abundance of the seas,

And the hidden treasures of the sand.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - “See, I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have eliminated, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the [fn]west.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:7 - so that you will not [fn]associate with these nations, these which remain with you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - “For the LORD has [fn]driven out great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, no one has stood against you to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - know with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to [fn]drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - “The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for He is our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:23 - So the LORD allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not hand them over to Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 -

Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them (that is, all the Israelites who had not [fn]experienced any of the wars of Canaan;

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:5 - and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20 - so that we also may be like all the nations, and our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - “And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, [fn]because of Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from other nations and their gods?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did that the LORD had taken into exile before them; and they did evil things, provoking the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 -

But every nation was still making gods of its own, and they put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:41 - So while these nations feared the LORD, they also served their [fn]idols; their children likewise and their grandchildren, just as their fathers did, they do to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - “It is true, LORD; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they did not listen, and Manasseh encouraged them to do evil, more than the nations whom the LORD eliminated from the presence of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:17 - Then the fame of David spread in all the lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him on all the nations.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - “And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for You a name by great and awesome things, by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - So Manasseh encouraged Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not [fn]comply with the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:23 -

“He makes the nations great, then destroys them;

He [fn]enlarges the nations, then leads them away.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 -

‘Ask it of Me, and I will certainly give the [fn]nations as Your inheritance,

And the ends of the earth as Your possession.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:20 -

Put them in fear, LORD;

Let the nations know that they are merely human. Selah

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2 -

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;

Then You planted them;

You afflicted the peoples,

Then You let them go free.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:3 -

He subdues peoples under us

And nations under our feet.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:8 -

God reigns over the nations,

God [fn]sits on His holy throne.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5 -

You, LORD God of armies, the God of Israel,

Awake to [fn]punish all the nations;

Do not be gracious to any who deal treacherously in wrongdoing. Selah

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:8 -

But You, LORD, laugh at them;

You scoff at all the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:7 -

He rules by His might forever;

His eyes keep watch on the nations;

The rebellious shall not exalt themselves! Selah

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:8 -

Bless our God, you peoples,

And [fn]sound His praise abroad,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 67:4 -

May the nations be glad and sing for joy;

For You will judge the peoples with fairness

And guide the nations on the earth. Selah

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 -

Rebuke the animals [fn]in the reeds,

The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,

Trampling the pieces of silver;

He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:55 -

He also drove out the nations from them

And apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement,

And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:6 -

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,

And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:8 -

You removed a vine from Egypt;

You drove out the [fn]nations and planted it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:10 -

He who [fn]disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke,

He who teaches mankind knowledge?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:34 -

They did not destroy the peoples,

As the LORD had commanded them,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:4 -

The LORD is high above all nations;

His glory is above the heavens.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 117:1 -

Praise the LORD, all nations;

Sing His praises, all peoples!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:10 -

[fn]He struck many nations

And brought death to mighty kings,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:24 -

One who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”

Peoples will curse him, nations will scold him;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:9 -

When a wise person has a controversy with a foolish person,

[fn]The foolish person either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:2 -

Now it will come about that

In the last days

The mountain of the house of the LORD

Will be established [fn]as the chief of the mountains,

And will be raised above the hills;

And all the nations will stream to it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 -

Yet it does not so intend,

Nor does [fn]it plan so in its heart,

But rather it is [fn]its purpose to destroy

And to eliminate [fn]many nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 -

Then on that day

The nations will resort to the root of Jesse,

Who will stand as a signal flag for the peoples;

And His resting place will be [fn]glorious.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 -

And He will lift up a flag for the nations

And assemble the banished ones of Israel,

And will gather the dispersed of Judah

From the four corners of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 -

“How you have fallen from heaven,

You [fn]star of the morning, son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the earth,

You who defeated the nations!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:26 - “This is the plan [fn]devised against the entire earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 -

For the fields of Heshbon have [fn]withered, the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;

Its [fn]tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:13 -

The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,

But He will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,

And be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind,

Or like whirling dust before a gale.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7 -

And on this mountain He will destroy the [fn]covering which is over all peoples,

The veil which is [fn]stretched over all nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 -

His breath is like an overflowing river,

Which reaches to the neck,

To shake the nations back and forth in a [fn]sieve,

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads astray.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:3 -

At the sound of a roar, peoples flee;

At the lifting up of Yourself, nations disperse.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 -

For the LORD'S anger is against all the nations,

And His wrath against all their armies.

He has [fn]utterly destroyed them,

He has turned them over to slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 -

“Have you not heard?

Long ago I did it,

From ancient times I planned it.

Now I have brought it about

That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 -

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed,

Whom I have taken by the right hand,

To subdue nations before him

And [fn]to undo the weapons belt on the waist of kings;

To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22 -

This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says:

“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations

And set up My flag to the peoples;

And they will bring your sons [fn]in their arms,

And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 -

“For you will spread out to the right and to the left.

And your [fn]descendants will possess nations

And will resettle the desolate cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:2 -

“For behold, darkness will cover the earth

And deep darkness the peoples;

But the LORD will rise upon you

And His glory will appear upon you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10 -

Go through, go through the gates,

Clear a way [fn]for the people!

Build up, build up the highway,

Remove the stones, lift up a flag over the peoples.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:2 -

[fn]As fire kindles brushwood, as fire causes water to boil

To make Your name known to Your adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:18 -

“For I [fn]know their works and their thoughts; [fn]the time is coming to gather all the nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:19 - “And I will put a sign among them and send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, [fn]Put, Lud, [fn]Meshech, Tubal, and [fn]Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard of My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 -

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

And before you were born I consecrated you;

I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10 -

“See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms,

To root out and to tear down,

To destroy and to overthrow,

To build and to plant.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 -

“A lion has gone up from his thicket,

And a destroyer of nations has set out;

He has gone out from his place

To make your land a waste.

Your cities will be ruins,

Without an inhabitant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 -

“Report it to the nations, now!

Proclaim to Jerusalem,

[fn]Enemies are coming from a remote country,

And they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 -

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You,

And on the families who do not call upon Your name;

For they have devoured Jacob;

They have devoured him and consumed him,

And have laid waste his [fn]settlement.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [fn]completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and [fn]hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 -

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 -

So I took the cup from the LORD'S hand and gave it to all the nations to whom the LORD sent me, to drink from it:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - “Take a [fn]scroll and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:14 -

I have heard a message from the LORD,

And a messenger is being sent among the nations, saying,

“Gather yourselves together and come against her,

And rise up for battle!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 -

Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD,

Intoxicating all the earth.

The nations have drunk of her wine;

Therefore the nations are going insane.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 -

He says, “You are My [fn]war-club, My weapon of war;

And with you I shatter nations,

And with you I destroy kingdoms.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:27 -

Lift up a signal flag in the land,

Blow a trumpet among the nations!

Consecrate the nations against her,

Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;

Appoint an officer against her,

Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 -

Consecrate the nations against her,

The kings of the Medes,

[fn]Their governors and all [fn]their officials,

And every land [fn]under their control.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 -

“I will punish Bel in Babylon,

And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;

And the nations will no longer stream toward him.

Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 -

The adversary has stretched out his hand

Over all her precious things,

For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,

The ones whom You commanded

That they were not to enter Your congregation.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - “Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them for a little while in the countries where they had gone.”'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 -

‘Then nations set against him

On every side from their provinces,

And they spread their net over him;

He was caught in their trap.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore this is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:33 -

‘When your merchandise went out from the seas,

You satisfied many peoples;

With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise

You enriched the kings of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - “It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will not raise itself above the nations again. And I will make them small so that they will not rule over the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23 - ‘And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26 - ‘When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the LORD.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:9 -

“I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, into lands which you have not known.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18 - “Son of man, lament for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the mighty nations, to the netherworld, with those who go down to the pit;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:10 -

“Since you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess [fn]them,' although the LORD was there,

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - therefore the Lord GOD says this: “Certainly in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who [fn]appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with contempt of soul, in order to make its pastureland plunder.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:7 - “Therefore the Lord GOD says this: ‘I have [fn]sworn that the nations that are around you will certainly endure their insults themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:19 - “I also scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:20 - “When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they have left His land.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:22 - and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - “With plague and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, [fn]a torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:21 -

“And I will place My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 -

Let the priests, the LORD'S ministers,

Weep between the porch and the altar,

And let them say, “[fn]Spare Your people, LORD,

And do not make Your inheritance a disgrace,

With the nations jeering at them.

Why should those among the peoples say,

‘Where is their God?'”

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 -

I will gather all the nations

And bring them down to the Valley of [fn]Jehoshaphat.

Then I will enter into judgment with them there

On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,

Whom they have scattered among the nations;

And they have divided up My land.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:11 -

[fn]Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,

And gather yourselves there.

Bring down, LORD, Your warriors.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:12 -

Let the nations be awakened

And come up to the Valley of [fn]Jehoshaphat,

For there I will sit to judge

All the surrounding nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:12 -

So that they may [fn]possess the remnant of Edom

And all the [fn]nations who are called by My name,”

Declares the LORD who does this.

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 -

The vision of Obadiah.

This is what the Lord [fn]GOD says concerning Edom

We have heard a report from the LORD,

And a messenger has been sent among the nations saying,

“Arise, and let's go up against her for battle”—

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:15 -

“For the day of the LORD is near for all the nations.

Just as you have done, it will be done to you.

Your dealings will return on your own head.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 -

And He will judge between many peoples

And render decisions for mighty, [fn]distant nations.

Then they will beat their swords into plowshares,

And their spears into pruning hooks;

Nation will not lift a sword against nation,

And never again will they [fn]train for war.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 -

“Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,

For I will make your horn iron,

And I will make your hoofs bronze,

So that you may pulverize many peoples,

And dedicate to the LORD their unjust profit,

And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 -

All because of the many sexual acts of the prostitute,

The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,

Who sells nations by her sexual acts,

And families by her sorceries.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17 -

Will they therefore empty their net,

And continually slay nations without sparing?

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 -

“Furthermore, wine betrays an arrogant man,

So that he does not achieve his objective.

He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,

And he is like death, never satisfied.

He also gathers to himself all the nations

And collects to himself all the peoples.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8 -

“Since you have looted many nations,

All the rest of the peoples will loot you—

Because of human bloodshed and violence [fn]done to the land,

To the town and all its inhabitants.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:6 -

He stood and caused the earth to shudder;

He looked and caused the nations to jump.

Yes, the everlasting mountains were shattered,

The ancient hills [fn]collapsed.

His paths are everlasting.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:12 -

In indignation You marched through the earth;

In anger You [fn]trampled the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7 - ‘I will shake all the nations; and [fn]they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD of armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - “But I am very angry with the nations who are carefree; for while I was only a little angry, they [fn]furthered the disaster.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:21 - And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah so that no one lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to frighten them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:8 - For the LORD of armies says this: “After glory He has sent me against the nations that plunder you, for the one who touches you, touches the [fn]apple of His eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - “but I [fn]scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they did not know. So the land was desolated behind them [fn]so that no one went back and forth, since they made the pleasant land desolate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:9 - “And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be taken, the houses plundered, the women raped, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be eliminated from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:9 - “So I also have made you despised and of low reputation [fn]in the view of all the people, since you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the [fn]instruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:12 - “All the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the LORD of armies.
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Occurrences: 88 times in 87 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Plural Neuter
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - since Abraham will certainly become a great and [fn]mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18 - “And in your [fn]seed all the nations of the earth shall [fn]be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - And the LORD said to her,

“Two nations are in your womb;

And two peoples will be separated from your body;

And one people will be stronger than the other;

And the older will serve the younger.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - “I will multiply your [fn]descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your [fn]descendants all these lands; and by your [fn]descendants all the nations of the earth [fn]shall be blessed,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 -

May peoples serve you,

And nations bow down to you;

Be master of your brothers,

And may your mother's sons bow down to you.

Cursed be those who curse you,

And blessed be those who bless you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - God also said to him,

“I am [fn]God Almighty;

Be fruitful and multiply;

A nation and a multitude of nations shall [fn]come from you,

And kings shall [fn]come from [fn]you.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:14 -

“The peoples have heard, they tremble;

Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 -

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these things the nations which I am driving out from you have become defiled.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - “Now if You put this people to death [fn]all at once, then the nations who have heard of Your fame will [fn]say,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:20 - “Like the nations that the LORD eliminates from you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - be careful that you are not ensnared [fn]to follow them, after they are destroyed from your presence, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:10 - “So all the peoples of the earth will see that [fn]you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 -

“Rejoice, you nations, with His people;

For He will avenge the blood of His servants,

And will return vengeance on His adversaries,

And will atone for His land and His people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, so that you may [fn]fear the LORD your God [fn]forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have taken into exile and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the God of the land; so He has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them because they do not know the custom of the God of the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 -

But every nation was still making gods of its own, and they put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:16 - When all our enemies heard about it, and all the nations surrounding us saw it, they [fn]lost their confidence; for they realized that this work had been accomplished [fn]with the help of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:11 - “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king in the inner courtyard, who is not summoned, he has only one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:6 -

“Will the [fn]traders bargain for him?

Will they divide him among the merchants?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:1 -

Why are the [fn]nations restless

And the peoples plotting in vain?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:15 -

The nations have sunk down into the pit which they have made;

In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:17 -

The wicked will [fn]return to [fn]Sheol,

All the nations who forget God.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:19 -

Arise, LORD, do not let mankind prevail;

Let the nations be judged before You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:6 -

The [fn]nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;

He [fn]raised His voice, the earth quaked.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:1 -

For the music director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Clap your hands, all you peoples;

Shout to God with a voice of joy.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:1 -

For the music director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Hear this, all peoples;

Listen, all inhabitants of the world,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:7 -

Who stills the roaring of the seas,

The roaring of their waves,

And the turmoil of the nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:11 -

[fn]And may all kings bow down before him,

All nations serve him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:17 -

May his name endure forever;

May his name produce descendants [fn]as long as the sun shines;

And may people wish blessings on themselves by him;

May all nations call him blessed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:1 -

A Psalm of Asaph.

God, the nations have [fn]invaded Your inheritance;

They have defiled Your holy temple;

They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 -

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Let vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed

Be known among the nations in our sight.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:9 -

All nations whom You have made will come and worship before You, Lord,

And they will glorify Your name.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:15 -

[fn]So the [fn]nations will fear the name of the LORD,

And all the kings of the earth, Your glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:2 -

Why should the nations say,

“Where, then, is their God?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:10 -

All nations surrounded me;

In the name of the LORD I will certainly fend them off.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3 -

And many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let's go up to the mountain of the LORD,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

So that He may teach us [fn]about His ways,

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For [fn]the law will go out from Zion

And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:9 -

“Be broken, you peoples, and be [fn]shattered;

And listen, all remote places of the earth.

[fn]Get ready, yet be [fn]shattered;

[fn]Get ready, yet be [fn]shattered.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 - The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will make them their own possession in the land of the LORD as male and female servants; and [fn]they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:12 -

“The peoples will be burned to lime,

Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:1 -

Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples!

Let the earth and [fn]all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 -

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales;

Behold, He lifts up the [fn]islands like fine dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 -

All the nations are as nothing before Him,

They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and [fn]meaningless.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:5 -

The coastlands have seen and are afraid;

The ends of the earth tremble;

They have approached and have come.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:4 -

“He will not be disheartened or crushed

Until He has established justice on the earth;

And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His [fn]law.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:9 -

All the nations have gathered together

So that the peoples may be assembled.

Who among them can declare this

And proclaim to us the former things?

Let them present their witnesses so that they may be justified,

Or let them hear and say, “It is true.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:1 -

Listen to Me, you islands,

And pay attention, you peoples from afar.

The LORD called Me from the womb;

From the [fn]body of My mother He named Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:5 -

“My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth,

And My arms will judge the peoples;

The coastlands will wait for Me,

And they will wait expectantly for My arm.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:15 -

So [fn]He will sprinkle many nations,

Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;

For what they had not been told, they will see,

And what they had not heard, they will understand.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:5 -

“Behold, you will call a nation you do not know,

And a nation which does not know you will run to you,

Because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel;

For He has glorified you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:3 -

“Nations will come to your light,

And kings to the brightness of your rising.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 -

“For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,

And the nations will be utterly ruined.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:2 -

The nations will see your righteousness,

And all kings your glory;

And you will be called by a new name

Which the mouth of the LORD will designate.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 -

“Has a nation changed gods,

When they were not gods?

But My people have exchanged their glory

For that which is of no benefit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - “At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the LORD,' and all the nations will assemble at it, at Jerusalem, for the name of the LORD; and they will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:2 -

And if you will swear, ‘As the LORD lives,'

In truth, in justice, and in righteousness;

Then the nations will bless themselves in Him,

And in Him they will boast.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:18 -

“Therefore hear, you nations,

And know, you congregation, what is among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:22 -

This is what the LORD says:

“Behold, there is a people coming from the north land,

And a great nation will be stirred up from the remote parts of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all those inhabiting the desert who trim the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 -

LORD, my strength and my stronghold,

And my refuge in the day of distress,

To You the nations will come

From the ends of the earth and say,

“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,

Futility, and [fn]things of no benefit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8 -

“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this great city?'

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 -

The nations have heard of your shame,

And the earth is full of your cry of distress;

For one warrior has stumbled over [fn]another,

And both of them have fallen down together.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:58 -

This is what the LORD of armies says:

“The broad wall of Babylon will be completely demolished,

And her high gates will be set on fire;

So the peoples will labor for nothing,

And the nations become exhausted only for fire.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 -

‘Then nations heard about him;

He was caught in their trap,

And they brought him with hooks

To the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “And whatever comes [fn]into your mind certainly will not come about, when you say: ‘We will be like the nations, like the families of the lands, serving wood and stone.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 -

‘The Lord GOD says this: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,'

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said in regard to Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; it has [fn]opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - “I made the nations quake from the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [fn]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - “And I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble again and again, every person for his own life, on the day of your fall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:23 - “And I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I show Myself holy among you in their sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:36 - “Then the nations around you that are left will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolated; I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:28 - “And the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:6 - Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:9 - “And you will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:15 - “You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding horses, a large assembly and a mighty army;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:16 - and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy through you before their eyes, Gog.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4 - “You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops, and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every [fn]kind of predatory bird and animal of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:7 -

“And I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not allow My holy name to be profaned anymore. But the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:23 - “The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their wrongdoing, because they were disloyal to Me, and I hid My face from them; so I handed them over to their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:12 -

Let the nations be awakened

And come up to the Valley of [fn]Jehoshaphat,

For there I will sit to judge

All the surrounding nations.

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:16 -

“For just as you drank on My holy mountain,

All the nations will drink continually.

They will drink [fn]to the last drop,

And become as if they had never existed.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:2 -

Many nations will come and say,

“Come and let's go up to the mountain of the LORD

And to the house of the God of Jacob,

So that He may teach us about His ways,

And that we may walk in His paths.”

For from Zion will go forth the law,

And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:11 -

“And now many nations have been assembled against you

Who say, ‘Let her be defiled,

And let our eyes [fn]gloat over Zion!'

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:16 -

Nations will see and be ashamed

Of all their might.

They will put their hand on their mouth,

Their ears will be deaf.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:13 -

“Is it not indeed from the LORD of armies

That peoples labor merely for fire,

And nations become weary for nothing?

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:11 - “And many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the LORD of armies has sent Me to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:22 - ‘So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the LORD of armies in Jerusalem, and to plead for the favor of the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:3 - “It will come about on that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will injure themselves severely. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
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Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Plural Neuter
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:16 -

The LORD is King forever and ever;

Nations have perished from His land.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 -

Hear the word of the LORD, you nations,

And declare it in the coastlands far away,

And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him,

And He will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

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