2,716 verses contain “people” (in the KJV: 2,275, in the BSB: 2,031) — showing 2,601–2,700
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Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, What mean these words that thou hast spoken?
From that day forth was Daniel had in great reputation in the sight of the people.
Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen:
Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:
In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.
Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;
He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?
In the mean while the king’s officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice.
So they rose up against them in battle on the sabbath, and they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the number of a thousand people.
As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the people.
Take also unto you all those that observe the law, and avenge ye the wrong of your people.
So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.
For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.
They said one to another, Let us restore the decayed fortune of our people, and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary.
For it is better for us to die in battle, than to behold the calamities of our people and our sanctuary.
Shut up this army in the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their power and horsemen:
Then all the people fell upon their faces, worshipping and praising the God of heaven, who had given them good success.
Thus was there very great gladness among the people, for that the reproach of the heathen was put away.
And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Bethsura to preserve it; that the people might have a defence against Idumea.
Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen until the time that we come again.
So he went first over unto them, and all the people after him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.
And so it was, that Joseph and Azaras were put to flight, and pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there were slain that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.
Insomuch as the people assembled unto them with joyful acclamations.
Put himself in jeopardy, to the end he might deliver his people, and get him a perpetual name:
And they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his brethren have slain all thy friends, and driven us out of our own land.
Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, who said, There is neither truth nor righteousness in them; for they have broken the covenant and oath that they made.
After this, removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bezeth, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.
Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that bare deadly hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the people.
Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:
Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house, wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting alway for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:
Judas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the Jews, have sent us unto you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your confederates and friends.
Good success be to the Romans, and to the people of the Jews, by sea and by land for ever: the sword also and enemy be far from them,
The people of the Jews shall help them, as the time shall be appointed, with all their heart:
According to these articles did the Romans make a covenant with the people of the Jews.
Now Jonathan had sent his brother John, a captain of the people, to pray his friends the Nabathites, that they might leave with them their carriage, which was much.
Else he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and against his brethren and his people.
And Jonathan knew that there was an ambushment behind him; for they had compassed in his host, and cast darts at the people, from morning till evening.
And though certain ungodly men of the people had made complaints against him,
We are determined to do good to the people of the Jews, who are our friends, and keep covenants with us, because of their good will toward us.
So they went unto Rome, and entered into the senate, and said, Jonathan the high priest, and the people of the Jews, sent us unto you, to the end ye should renew the friendship, which ye had with them, and league, as in former time.
And saw that the people was in great trembling and fear, he went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together,
Now as soon as the people heard these words, their spirit revived.
Hereupon Simon, albeit he perceived that they spake deceitfully unto him yet sent he the money and the children, lest peradventure he should procure to himself great hatred of the people:
Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
Insomuch as the people of the city rent their clothes, and climbed upon the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.
Moreover he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out; and every contemner of the law and wicked person he took away.
And this is the copy of the letters that the Lacedemonians sent; The rulers of the Lacedemonians, with the city, unto Simon the high priest, and the elders, and priests, and residue of the people of the Jews, our brethren, send greeting:
And it pleased the people to entertain the men honourably, and to put the copy of their ambassage in publick records, to the end the people of the Lacedemonians might have a memorial thereof: furthermore we have written a copy thereof unto Simon the high priest.
At Saramel in the great congregation of the priests, and people, and rulers of the nation, and elders of the country, were these things notified unto us.
(For after that Jonathan, having gathered his nation together, and been their high priest, was added to his people,
Thus it liked all the people to deal with Simon, and to do as hath been said.
The Jews’ ambassadors, our friends and confederates, came unto us to renew the old friendship and league, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:
So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he went first over himself, and then the men seeing him passed through after him.
Receive the sacrifice for thy whole people Israel, and preserve thine own portion, and sanctify it.
Plant thy people again in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.
Which when Jeremy perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his people again together, and receive them unto mercy.
We hope also, that the God, that delivered all his people, and gave them all an heritage, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,
Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.
Thus they that followed the matter for the city, and for the people, and for the holy vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.
Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place’s sake, but the place far the people’s sake.