Quotes about Inhabitants

Paul does not quote the Psalms or Isaiah, but we can see the influence of their double vision of the One God all the way through: the sovereign God, high above and beyond the earth so that its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, yet gently at hand, gathering the lambs in his arms and leading the mother sheep.

Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! PSALM 33:8

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

And all those counted totaled 603,550.

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.