What Does the Bible Say About Heathen?

“And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.”

“But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. a man's: Heb. married to an husband”

“And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.”

“Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:”

“And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.”

“Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, made: Heb. caused a voice to pass”

“How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.”

“He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.”

“And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;”

“And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.”

“And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:”

“Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.”

“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.”

“Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;”

“For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.”

“Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. nose: or, anger”

“The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. pleasant: or, desirable”

“Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.”

“In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.”

“Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.”

“So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.”

“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,”

“And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,”

“And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.”

“There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,”

“But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.”