NATION

NATION. → Sins of Isa 30:1,2 → Chastised Isa 14:26,27; Jer 5:29; 18:6-10; 25:12-33; Eze 2:3-5; 39:23,24; Da 7:9-12; 9:3-16; Ho 7:12; Joe 1:1-20; Am 9:9; Zep 3:6,8 → Perish Ps 9:17; Isa 60:12 → National adversity, prayer in Jud 21:2-4; 2Ch 7:13,14; Ps 74; Joe 2:12 → Lamented Ezr 9; Ne 1:4-11; Jer 6:14; 8:11 → See SIN, NATIONAL → Prayer for Ps 85:1-7; La 2:20-22; 5; Da 9:3-21 → Involved in sins of rulers Ge 20:4,9; 2Sa 24:10-17; 1Ch 21:7-17 → Involved in the sins of other individuals, as Achan Jos 7:1,11-26 → Peace of Job 34:29; Ps 33:12; 89:15-18 → Promises of peace to Le 26:6; 1Ki 2:33; 2Ki 20:19; 1Ch 22:9; Ps 29:11; 46:9; 72:3,7; 128:6; Isa 2:4; 14:4-7; 60:17,18; 65:25; Jer 30:10; 50:34; Eze 34:25-28; Ho 2:18; Mic 4:3,4; Zec 1:11; 3:10; 8:4,5; 9:10; 14:11 → Prayer for peace Jer 29:7; 1Ti 2:1,2 → Peace given by God Jos 21:44; 1Ch 22:18; 23:25; Ps 147:13,14; Ec 3:8; Isa 45:7 → Instances of national peace Jos 14:15; Jud 3:11,30; 1Ki 4:24,25 → See WAR → Righteousness exalts Pr 14:34 → See GOVERNMENT → See KING → See RULERS

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nation. Nation, n. a body, of people united under one prince or government, or their state or kingdom

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Na″tion (?), n. [[F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a being born, fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnasci, from the same root as E. kin. √44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native.]] 1. 1. (Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. Rev. vii. 9. 2. 2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
A nation is the unity of a people. Coleridge. Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. F. S. Key. 3. 3. Family; lineage. Chaucer.
4. 4. (a) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. (b) (Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
5. 5. A great number; a great deal; — by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs. Sterne.
Five nations. See under Five. — Law of nations. See International law, under International, and Law. Syn. — people; race. See People.