Samaritans and Jews
With the past week or more, we have been hit with many racial accusations of hated and purposeful actions. As I look back through the Bible, I see justifications on both sides for the particular reaction. I read about the Samaritans and the Jews. Please provide other tribal disparities in the Bible that I can reference. Thank you.
There was bad blood between Samaritans and Jews going back to the 8th century B.C. That was when the Assyrians moved people into the areas of northern Israel vacated by Israelites who were taken into captivity in Assyria. Those transplants became known as Samaritans.
I do not know if this is the information you are seeking, but here are some biblical references that show how the people of Israel were to distance themselves from surrounding, heathen nations: Deuteronomy 23:3-6; Ezra 10:10-44; Nehemiah 13:1-3. The reason for that distancing was religious in nature: God did not want the people of Israel to pollute themselves with ideas of false religions.
At the same time, because God loves all people (John 3:16), he wanted the people of Israel to declares his praises to others so that they too could enjoy his forgiving love through faith in the promised Messiah (Psalm 96:2-3; Isaiah 43:10, 12, 21; Jonah 4:1-11).
That outreach—along with Christian mission and evangelism activity of all time—achieved its goal, as evidenced by what the apostle John saw in one of his visions: “After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb” (Revelation 7:9).