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Deuteronomy 32:30
How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the LORD had handed them over?
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Jeremiah 3:8
She also saw that I gave wayward Israel her divorce papers and sent her away because of her adulterous worship of other gods. Even after her unfaithful sister Judah had seen this, she still was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods.
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2 Kings 4 1
Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying,“ Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
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Matthew 18:25
Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.
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Nehemiah 5:5
And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
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Isaiah 52:3
For this is what the LORD says:“ You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.”
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Exodus 21:7
“ If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
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Psalms 44:12
You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.
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Esther 7:4
For we have been sold– both I and my people– to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king.”
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Mark 10:4-12
They said,“ Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”But Jesus said to them,“ He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.So he told them,“ Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4
If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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2 Kings 17 17
They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.
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1 Kings 21 25
( There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, urged on by his wife Jezebel.
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Hosea 2:2-4
Plead earnestly with your mother( for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.I will have no pity on her children, because they are children conceived in adultery.
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Isaiah 59:1-2
Look, the LORD’s hand is not too weak to deliver you; his ear is not too deaf to hear you.But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.
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Jeremiah 3:1
“ If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the LORD.
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Jeremiah 4:18
“ The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”
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Leviticus 25:39
“‘ If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.