Nave’s Topical Bible
Heathen
36 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(Under this heading are grouped all who are not embraced under The Abrahamic covenant)
- Cast out of Canaan
- Their land given to Israel
Psalms 78:55; Psalms 105:44; Psalms 135:12; Psalms 136:21-22; Isaiah 54:1-3
- Excluded from the temple
- Wicked practices of
See IDOLATRY
- Divine revelations given to
- Abimelech
- Pharaoh
- Balaam
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Belshazzar
- Cyrus
- The Magi (wise men from the east)
- The centurion at Capernaum
- Cornelius
- Pious people among
- INSTANCES OF
- Melchizedek
- Abimelech
- Balaam
- Jethro
- Cyrus
- Eliphaz
- Bildad
- Zophar
- Elihu
- Nebuchadnezzar, after his restoration
- The Ninevites
- The Magi (the wise men from the east)
- The centurion at Capernaum
- The centurion at Caesarea
See GENTILES
Bible verses about “Heathen”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Leviticus 18:24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
- Leviticus 18:25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
- Psalms 44:2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
- Psalms 78:55He 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.
- Psalms 105:44And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
- Psalms 135:12And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
- Psalms 136:21And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:
- Psalms 136:22Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Isaiah 54:1Sing, 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.
- Isaiah 54:2Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
- Isaiah 54:3For 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.
- Lamentations 1:10The 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.
- Genesis 20:3But 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.
- Genesis 20:4But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
- Genesis 20:5Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
- Genesis 20:6And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
- Genesis 20:7Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
- Genesis 41:1And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
- Genesis 41:2And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
- Genesis 41:3And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
- Genesis 41:4And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:5And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
- Genesis 41:6And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
- Genesis 41:7And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:8And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:9Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
- Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
- Genesis 41:11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
- Genesis 41:12And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
- Genesis 41:13And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
- Genesis 41:14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:15And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
- Genesis 41:16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
- Genesis 41:17And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
- Genesis 41:18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
- Genesis 41:19And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
- Genesis 41:20And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
- Genesis 41:21And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
- Genesis 41:22And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
- Genesis 41:23And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: