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Migrants - those who have chosen to leave their home country, mainly to escape poverty.These situations often lead to years of displacement. These people want to return to their country once the war or conflict is over. Refugees - people who have been forced to leave their nation due to violent conflict or war.These people temporarily live in another community in their country and usually return home when things improve. Displaced persons - those who have been forced to leave their homes (community) due to violent conflict, war, or a natural disaster.We use many different terms today for what the Bible calls strangers, foreigners, and sojourners. Question: Why did God pay so much attention to how Israel treated the strangers? Her story, as told in Gen 16 and 21, is heartbreaking. While in English, we call her Hagar by name, in Hebrew, hager means “the stranger.” She was an Egyptian woman taken as a slave into Abraham’s and Sarah’s household. In Ruth 2:10 we see her ask Boaz, in whose field she is gleaning, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me - a foreigner?” She understands her status as not being part of the tribes of Israel. Often the reason was that such a person came to find refuge because of hardship, famine, and war, or the stranger was brought into the land as a slave.įor instance, Ruth was from the tribe of Moab and came to live with her mother-in-law in Bethlehem. A “stranger” refers to anybody who was from another ethnic group but lived among the tribes of Israel. But the Bible has plenty to say about people called “strangers,” “sojourners,” or “foreigners,” and some Bibles even have “aliens.” The book of Deuteronomy has the most occurrences of the Hebrew word ger, meaning “stranger” (22 times). Ou will not find the term “refugee” in the Bible.
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Leading Question: Why do we have trouble with a God who calls for justice?