Lexicon :: Strong's H5236 - nēḵār

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no [fn]foreigner is to eat it;

“So the LORD alone led him;

There was no foreign god with him.

Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth (pagan goddesses) from among you and direct your hearts to the LORD and serve Him only; and He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”

“Foreigners pretend obedience to me;

As soon as they hear [me], they obey me.

Thus I cleansed and purified them from everything foreign (pagan), and I defined the duties of the priests and Levites, each one in his task;

As soon as they hear me, they respond and obey me;

Foreigners feign obedience to me.

“Let there be no strange god among you,

Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

How can we sing the LORD’S song

In a strange and foreign land?

Stretch out Your hand from above;

Set me free and rescue me from great waters,

Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]

Set me free and rescue me from the hand of [hostile] foreigners,

Whose mouth speaks deceit [without restraint],

And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Do not let the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say,

“The LORD will most certainly separate me from His people.”

And do not let the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”

“Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,

To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD,

To be His servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it

And holds fast to My covenant [by conscientious obedience];

“Foreigners will build up your walls,

And their kings will serve you;

For in My [righteous] wrath I struck you,

But in My favor and grace I have had compassion on you.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,

And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

The LORD has sworn [an oath] by His right hand and by His mighty arm,

“I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies,

Nor will [the invading] foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”

Behold, [hear the sound of] the cry of the daughter of my people from the distant land [of Babylon]:

“Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King within her?”

[But the LORD answers] “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images and with foreign idols?”

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.