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Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one person chase a thousand of them, and two people put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?
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Jeremiah 3:8
She saw that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.
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2 Kings 4 1
One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out,“ My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”
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Matthew 18:25
He couldn’t pay, so his master ordered that he be sold— along with his wife, his children, and everything he owned— to pay the debt.
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Nehemiah 5:5
We belong to the same family as those who are wealthy, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others.”
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Isaiah 52:3
For this is what the Lord says:“ When I sold you into exile, I received no payment. Now I can redeem you without having to pay for you.”
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Exodus 21:7
“ When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.
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Psalms 44:12
You sold your precious people for a pittance, making nothing on the sale.
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Esther 7:4
For my people and I have been sold to those who would kill, slaughter, and annihilate us. If we had merely been sold as slaves, I could remain quiet, for that would be too trivial a matter to warrant disturbing the king.”
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Mark 10:4-12
“ Well, he permitted it,” they replied.“ He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away.”But Jesus responded,“ He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts.But‘ God made them male and female’ from the beginning of creation.‘ This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one,let no one split apart what God has joined together.”Later, when he was alone with his disciples in the house, they brought up the subject again.He told them,“ Whoever divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery against her.And if a woman divorces her husband and marries someone else, she commits adultery.”
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4
“ Suppose a man marries a woman but she does not please him. Having discovered something wrong with her, he writes a document of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house.When she leaves his house, she is free to marry another man.But if the second husband also turns against her, writes a document of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away, or if he dies,the first husband may not marry her again, for she has been defiled. That would be detestable to the Lord. You must not bring guilt upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as a special possession.
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2 Kings 17 17
They even sacrificed their own sons and daughters in the fire. They consulted fortune tellers and practiced sorcery and sold themselves to evil, arousing the Lord’s anger.
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1 Kings 21 25
( No one else so completely sold himself to what was evil in the Lord’s sight as Ahab did under the influence of his wife Jezebel.
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Hosea 2:2-4
“ But now bring charges against Israel— your mother— for she is no longer my wife, and I am no longer her husband. Tell her to remove the prostitute’s makeup from her face and the clothing that exposes her breasts.Otherwise, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will leave her to die of thirst, as in a dry and barren wilderness.And I will not love her children, for they were conceived in prostitution.
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Isaiah 59:1-2
Listen! The Lord’s arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.
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Jeremiah 3:1
“ If a man divorces a woman and she goes and marries someone else, he will not take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, so why are you trying to come back to me?” says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 4:18
“ Your own actions have brought this upon you. This punishment is bitter, piercing you to the heart!”
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Leviticus 25:39
“ If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell himself to you, do not treat him as a slave.