Concordance

“Nation” in the Bible

651 verses contain “nation” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 10:5 From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.
Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
Genesis 10:32 All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.
Genesis 12:2 I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Genesis 15:14 But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
Genesis 17:4 “As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
Genesis 17:20 …e father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great…
Genesis 18:18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 20:4 Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?
Genesis 21:13 But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Genesis 21:18 Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
Genesis 22:18 And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Genesis 25:23 and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will…
Genesis 26:4 …l give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be…
Genesis 27:29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be…
Genesis 35:11 And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
Genesis 41:57 And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Genesis 46:3 “I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
Genesis 48:19 …ater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of…
Genesis 49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Exodus 9:24 …een seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a…
Exodus 15:14 The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
Exodus 19:5 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:6 And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
Exodus 23:27 I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
Exodus 32:10 Now leave Me alone, so that My anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
Exodus 33:13 Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
Exodus 34:10 …ple I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome…
Exodus 34:24 For I will drive out the nations before 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…
Leviticus 18:24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
Leviticus 18:28 So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
Leviticus 20:23 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
Leviticus 20:26 You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
Leviticus 25:44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
Leviticus 26:33 But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
Leviticus 26:38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
Leviticus 26:45 …whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the…
Numbers 14:12 I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”
Numbers 14:15 If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Numbers 23:9 For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
Numbers 24:8 God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
Numbers 24:20 Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
Deuteronomy 2:25 This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
Deuteronomy 4:6 …will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding…
Deuteronomy 4:7 For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
Deuteronomy 4:19 …d worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under…
Deuteronomy 4:27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great…
Deuteronomy 4:38 to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 7:1 … are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations…
Deuteronomy 7:17 You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
Deuteronomy 7:22 The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply…
Deuteronomy 8:20 Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Deuteronomy 9:4 …o possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their…
Deuteronomy 9:5 …heir wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and…
Deuteronomy 9:14 Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
Deuteronomy 11:23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
Deuteronomy 12:30 …you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do…
Deuteronomy 15:6 When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
Deuteronomy 17:14 …in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around…
Deuteronomy 18:9 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
Deuteronomy 18:12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
Deuteronomy 18:14 Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
Deuteronomy 20:15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Deuteronomy 20:16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
Deuteronomy 26:5 …n to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and…
Deuteronomy 26:19 that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
Deuteronomy 28:1 …ou today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the…
Deuteronomy 28:12 … to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from…
Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
Deuteronomy 28:50 a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which…
Deuteronomy 28:65 Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a…
Deuteronomy 29:16 For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
Deuteronomy 29:18 …y from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter…
Deuteronomy 29:24 So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
Deuteronomy 30:1 … I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished…
Deuteronomy 30:3 then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 31:3 …Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has…
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Deuteronomy 32:21 … by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without…
Deuteronomy 32:28 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
Deuteronomy 32:43 … with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His…
Deuteronomy 33:17 …rns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of…
Joshua 3:17 …le all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the…
Joshua 4:1 When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Joshua 5:6 …s had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed…
Joshua 5:8 And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
Joshua 10:13 So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the…
Joshua 23:3 “and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
Joshua 23:4 …e allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great…
Joshua 23:7 So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow…
Joshua 23:9 The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
Joshua 23:12 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
Joshua 23:13 … sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns…
Joshua 24:17 … also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we…
Joshua 24:18 And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”
Judges 2:20 So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
Judges 2:21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
Judges 2:23 That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges 3:1 These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
Judges 3:4 These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
1 Samuel 8:5 “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
1 Samuel 8:20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
2 Samuel 7:23 And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and…
2 Samuel 8:11 and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—
2 Samuel 22:44 You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
2 Samuel 22:48 the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,
2 Samuel 22:50 Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
1 Kings 4:31 …ns of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding…
1 Kings 4:34 So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kings 11:2 These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their…
1 Kings 14:24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
1 Kings 18:10 As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that…
2 Kings 16:3 …d his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the…
2 Kings 17:8 and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 17:11 They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
2 Kings 17:15 …nd themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to…
2 Kings 17:29 Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of…
2 Kings 17:33 They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
2 Kings 17:41 So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
2 Kings 18:33 Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kings 19:12 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
2 Kings 19:17 Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
2 Kings 21:2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:9 But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
1 Chronicles 14:17 And David’s fame went out into every land, and the LORD caused all nations to fear him.
1 Chronicles 16:8 “Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
1 Chronicles 16:20 they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
1 Chronicles 16:24 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.
1 Chronicles 16:26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
1 Chronicles 16:28 Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
1 Chronicles 16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’
1 Chronicles 16:35 Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’
1 Chronicles 17:21 And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome…
1 Chronicles 18:11 … with the silver and gold he had carried off from all these nations—from Edom and Moab, and from the Ammonites, Philistines, and…
2 Chronicles 15:6 Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
2 Chronicles 20:6 …in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against…

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