Quotes About Separation

So Ish-bosheth sent and took Michal from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.

And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.

For You, O Lord GOD, as Your inheritance, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”

But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

As the sun was setting, the cry rang out in the army: “Every man to his own city, and every man to his own land!”

As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.

And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.

The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

“The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to understand,

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your fatherís house,

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.