Shammai’s son was Maon, who was the father of Beth-Zur.

foreigners lose their courage; ¹  they shake with fear ²  as they leave ³  their strongholds. ⁴ 

Such godly people are rewarded by the Lord, ¹  and vindicated by the God who delivers them. ² 

How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land?

Let them be for yourself ¹  alone, and not for strangers with you. ² 

by keeping ¹  you from the evil woman, ²  from the smooth tongue of ³  the loose woman. ⁴ 

Your eyes will see strange things, ¹  and your mind will speak perverse things.

A wise warrior ¹  is strong, ²  and a man of knowledge makes his strength stronger;

Our inheritance ¹  is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. ² 

Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. ¹  They leave behind devastation and destruction. ² 

For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, ¹  he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, ²  to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task. ³ 

He said, “Yes.” When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, ¹  “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes – from their sons ²  or from foreigners?”

Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord ¹  is able to make him stand.

Nor do we boast beyond certain limits ¹  in the work ²  done by others, but we hope ³  that as your faith continues to grow, our work may be greatly expanded ⁴  among you according to our limits, ⁵ 

By faith he lived as a foreigner ¹  in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs ²  of the same promise.

But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire ¹  before the Lord.

Afterward David’s conscience bothered him ¹  because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

Foreigners are powerless before me; ¹  when they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. ² 

But King Solomon will be empowered ¹  and David’s dynasty ²  will endure permanently before the Lord.”

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods. ¹