Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbours in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the sea coast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbours and that they lived among them.

Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbours, empty vessels and not too few.

Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbours while evil is in their hearts.

Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbours, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

You have made us the taunt of our neighbours, the derision and scorn of those around us.

We have become a taunt to our neighbours, mocked and derided by those around us.

Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbours the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!

You make us an object of contention for our neighbours, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbours.

Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbours who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the Lord.’”

But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbours; and he is no more.

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is none to comfort her; the Lord has commanded against Jacob that his neighbours should be his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbours, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbours by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

“And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbours who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.

And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgements upon all their neighbours who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”

Judgement on Israel's Neighbours

And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”

“Woe to him who makes his neighbours drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

And her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

And fear came on all their neighbours. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea,

The Parable of the Great Banquet

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’