Lefty view of the Bible
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That thing about being nice to foreigners was written in a time when travel was rare and difficult enough for people from the next town to be a novel sight, and inns and public houses weren't a thing yet.
Same goes for the Greek myth of Philemon and Baucis, the point of which is to also remind people to take wanderers in.
I don't think the societies that wrote either of these would tolerate a total invasion by foreigners, armed or not.
I think it's also a misreading of the word "foreigner". Anyone who wasn't part of your village or immediate surroundings could be a "foreigner".
To encounter a traveller from a different country would be exceedingly rare. Furthermore, the "foreigners" of today are indeed better described as invaders- most looking to extract resources and leave like a plague of locusts instead of put down roots and integrate.