Quotes About Belonging

Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.

The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.

How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

the Oznite clan from Ozni, the Erite clan from Eri,

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”

And at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.

Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.

and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeah. These also lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.

These were some of the descendants of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh who lived in Jerusalem:

Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They too lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;

The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomonís servants—

The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inheritance.

If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ëI never saw you.í

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORDís, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.