Quotes About Nations

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.

the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,

Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.

So men of all nations came to listen to Solomonís wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

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.

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.

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.

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

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 Samaria had made on the high places.

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.

Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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?

Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?í”

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

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.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.