100 Bible Verses About Israelites
Bible verses about Israelites
Exploring the story of the Israelites through scripture is a journey into the heart of God's covenant and enduring love. Understanding their triumphs and struggles, their obedience and rebellion, offers profound insights into our own spiritual walk. These verses reveal a people chosen not for perfection, but for purpose, a nation through whom blessings would flow to all the earth. As we study their history, we discover timeless lessons about faith, repentance, and the unwavering faithfulness of God, illuminating His plan of redemption and reminding us of our place within His grand narrative. May these verses deepen your understanding and strengthen your connection to the divine.
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Numbers 11:23 (KJV)
And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Israelites: Bible Verses, History, and God's Chosen People.
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.
Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.
And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the Lord.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
For David said, The Lord God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
And Ish–bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
And the families of Kirjath–jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth–shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.
And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there.
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
The selected Bible verses paint a multifaceted portrait of the Israelites, from their divine calling as a chosen people to their struggles with obedience and faith. They reveal God's enduring covenant with Abraham and his descendants, promising blessing and land, while simultaneously highlighting the consequences of disobedience and the need for repentance. Studying these passages prompts reflection on themes of covenant, faithfulness, and the enduring relationship between God and humanity. As we consider the narratives of the Israelites, we can glean valuable lessons applicable to our own lives, recognizing the importance of staying true to our commitments, seeking forgiveness when we stray, and trusting in God's unwavering love and provision, even amidst trials. Ultimately, the story of the Israelites serves as a testament to God's patient and persistent pursuit of a relationship with humanity, a story that continues to resonate and inspire today.