James 1:1
James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;
Cross References
Exodus 28:21And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.
Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:64The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 32:26I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
Ezra 6:17And they offered at the dedication of the house of God, a, hundred calves, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and for a sin offering for all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:15And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have dispersed them among the nations, and scattered them in the countries.