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Isaiah 50:1
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Isaiah 50:1
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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Isaiah 50:1
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Isaiah 50:1
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Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience
50 This is what the Lord says:
Deuteronomy 32:30
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Deuteronomy 32:30
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30 How could (A)one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock (B)had sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
Deuteronomy 32:30
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Deuteronomy 32:30
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Jeremiah 3:8
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Jeremiah 3:8
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8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (A)I had sent her away with (B)a decree of divorce. (C)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (D)and played the whore.
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Jeremiah 3:8
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Jeremiah 3:8
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8 I gave faithless Israel(A) her certificate of divorce(B) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(C) she also went out and committed adultery.
Matthew 18:25
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Matthew 18:25
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25 (A)And since he could not pay, his master ordered him (B)to be sold, with his wife and (C)children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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Matthew 18:25
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Matthew 18:25
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25 Since he was not able to pay,(A) the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold(B) to repay the debt.
Nehemiah 5:5
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (B)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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Nehemiah 5:5
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Although we are of the same flesh and blood(A) as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery.(B) Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”(C)
2 Kings 4:1
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2 Kings 4:1
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Elisha and the Widow's Oil
4 Now the wife of one of the (A)sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, (B)but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
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2 Kings 4:1
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2 Kings 4:1
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The Widow’s Olive Oil
4 The wife of a man from the company(A) of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor(B) is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
Isaiah 52:3
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Isaiah 52:3
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3 For thus says the Lord: (A)“You were sold for nothing, and (B)you shall be redeemed without money.”
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Isaiah 52:3
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Isaiah 52:3
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3 For this is what the Lord says:
Hosea 2:2-4
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Hosea 2:2-4
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2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for (A)she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away (B)her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
3 lest (C)I strip her naked
and make her as (D)in the day she was born,
and (E)make her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 (F)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
(G)because they are children of whoredom.
Hosea 2:2-4
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Hosea 2:2-4
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Israel Punished and Restored
2 “Rebuke your mother,(A) rebuke her,
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous(B) look from her face
and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise I will strip(C) her naked
and make her as bare as on the day she was born;(D)
I will make her like a desert,(E)
turn her into a parched land,
and slay her with thirst.
4 I will not show my love to her children,(F)
because they are the children of adultery.(G)
Mark 10:4-12
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Mark 10:4-12
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4 They said, (A)“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your (B)hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But (C)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them (D)male and female.’ 7 (E)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[a] 8 and (F)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 (G)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, (H)“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and (I)if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
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- Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife
Mark 10:4-12
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Mark 10:4-12
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4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”(A)
5 “It was because your hearts were hard(B) that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](C) 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c](D) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. 11 He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.(E) 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”(F)
Jeremiah 4:18
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Jeremiah 4:18
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18 Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (A)it is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”
Jeremiah 4:18
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Jeremiah 4:18
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Jeremiah 3:1
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Jeremiah 3:1
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3 (A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Jeremiah 3:1
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Jeremiah 3:1
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Isaiah 59:1-2
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Isaiah 59:1-2
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Evil and Oppression
59 Behold, (A)the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
2 (B)but your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.
Isaiah 59:1-2
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Isaiah 59:1-2
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Psalm 44:12
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Psalm 44:12
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12 (A)You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.
Psalm 44:12
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Psalm 44:12
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12 You sold your people for a pittance,(A)
gaining nothing from their sale.
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