Bible Cross References
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Leviticus 25:44
If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations around you.
Deuteronomy 20:14
You may, however, take for yourselves the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the city. You may use everything that belongs to your enemies. The LORD has given it to you.
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
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"When the LORD your God gives you victory in battle and you take prisoners,
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you may see among them a beautiful woman that you like and want to marry.
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Take her to your home, where she will shave her head, cut her fingernails,
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and change her clothes. She is to stay in your home and mourn for her parents for a month; after that, you may marry her.
14
Later, if you no longer want her, you are to let her go free. Since you forced her to have intercourse with you, you cannot treat her as a slave and sell her.
2 Chronicles 28:8-10
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Even though the Judeans were their own relatives, the Israelite army captured 200,000 women and children as prisoners and took them back to Samaria, along with large amounts of loot.
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A man named Oded, a prophet of the LORD, lived in the city of Samaria. He met the returning Israelite army with its Judean prisoners as it was about to enter the city, and he said, "The LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah and let you defeat them, but now he has heard of the vicious way you slaughtered them.
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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 14:2
Many nations will help the people of Israel return to the land which the LORD gave them, and there the nations will serve Israel as slaves. Those who once captured Israel will now be captured by Israel, and the people of Israel will rule over those who once oppressed them.