'Slave' in the Bible
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
“And if you [wonder and] say in your heart,‘Why have these things happened to me?’It is because of the greatness and nature of your sinThat your skirts have been pulled away [subjecting you to public disgrace]And [like a barefoot slave] your heels have been wounded.
“So I Myself will throw your skirts up over your face,That your shame may be exposed [publicly].
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his country's time also comes, and then many nations and great kings will use him as a slave.
And it will happen on that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'I will break his yoke from your neck and your bonds I will tear to pieces. And strangers will no longer let him work as a slave.
that every man should let his Hebrew slaves, male and female, go free, so that no one should make a slave of a Jew, his brother.
And all the officials and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant to let go each one his [male] slave and each one his female slave, not enslaving them again, and they obeyed and they let [them] go.
But you turned back and you profaned my name when you brought back each one his [male] slave and each one his female slave, whom you had let go free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be to you as [male] slaves and as female slaves.'
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Bible Theasaurus
- Slave (247 instances)
- Striver (2 instances)