Bible Cross References
At the
Jeremiah 34:8
King Zedekiah and the people of Jerusalem had made an agreement to set free
Jeremiah 34:9
their Hebrew slaves, both male and female, so that no one would have an Israelite as a slave.
Exodus 21:1-4
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"Give the Israelites the following laws:
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If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve you for six years. In the seventh year he is to be set free without having to pay anything.
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If he was unmarried when he became your slave, he is not to take a wife with him when he leaves; but if he was married when he became your slave, he may take his wife with him.
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If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the woman and her children belong to the master, and the man is to leave by himself.
Exodus 23:10
"For six years plant your land and gather in what it produces.
Exodus 23:11
But in the seventh year let it rest, and do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there, and the wild animals can have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.
Deuteronomy 15:12
"If any Israelites, male or female, sell themselves to you as slaves, you are to release them after they have served you for six years. When the seventh year comes, you must let them go free.
1 Kings 9:22
Solomon did not make slaves of Israelites; they served as his soldiers, officers, commanders, chariot captains, and cavalry.
2 Chronicles 28:10
And now you intend to make the men and women of Jerusalem and Judah your slaves. Don't you know that you also have committed sins against the LORD your God?
Isaiah 58:6
"The kind of fasting I want is this: Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free.
Amos 2:6
The LORD says, "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They sell into slavery honest people who cannot pay their debts, the poor who cannot repay even the price of a pair of sandals.
Amos 8:6
We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave."
been sold
1 Kings 21:25
(There was no one else who had devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in the LORD's sight as Ahab---all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.
Isaiah 50:1
The LORD says, "Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.
Romans 7:14-17
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We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a mortal, sold as a slave to sin.
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I do not understand what I do; for I don't do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.
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Since what I do is what I don't want to do, this shows that I agree that the Law is right.
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So I am not really the one who does this thing; rather it is the sin that lives in me.
Romans 7:24-17
but
Jeremiah 7:25
From the day that your ancestors came out of Egypt until this very day I have kept on sending to you my servants, the prophets.
Jeremiah 7:26
Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.
Jeremiah 11:8-10
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But they did not listen or obey. Instead, everyone continued to be as stubborn and evil as ever. I had commanded them to keep the covenant, but they refused. So I brought on them all the punishments described in it."
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Then the LORD said to me, "The people of Judah and of Jerusalem are plotting against me.
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They have gone back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to do what I said; they have worshiped other gods. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant that I made with their ancestors.
Jeremiah 32:30
From the very beginning of their history the people of Israel and the people of Judah have displeased me and made me angry by what they have done.
1 Samuel 8:7
and the LORD said, "Listen to everything the people say to you. You are not the one they have rejected; I am the one they have rejected as their king.
1 Samuel 8:8
Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have turned away from me and worshiped other gods; and now they are doing to you what they have always done to me.
2 Kings 17:13
The LORD had sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: "Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands, which are contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors and which I handed on to you through my servants the prophets."
2 Kings 17:14
But they would not obey; they were stubborn like their ancestors, who had not trusted in the LORD their God.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they made fun of God's messengers, ignoring his words and laughing at his prophets, until at last the LORD's anger against his people was so great that there was no escape.
Nehemiah 9:30
Year after year you patiently warned them. You inspired your prophets to speak, but your people were deaf, so you let them be conquered by other nations.
Ezekiel 20:4
"Are you ready to pass sentence on them, mortal man? Then do so. Remind them of the disgusting things their ancestors did.
Ezekiel 20:8
But they defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.
Zechariah 7:11
"But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds
Zechariah 7:12
and made their hearts as hard as rock. Because they would not listen to the teaching which I sent through the prophets who lived long ago, I became very angry.