TOPICAL BIBLE
Divorce
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Exodus 21:7‘And when a man selleth his daughter for a handmaid, she doth not go out according to the going out of the men-servants;Exodus 21:8if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.Exodus 21:9‘And if to his son he betroth her, according to the right of daughters he doth to her.Exodus 21:10If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;Exodus 21:11and if these three he do not to her, then she hath gone out for nought, without money.Deuteronomy 21:10‘When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,Deuteronomy 21:11and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,Deuteronomy 21:12then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails,Deuteronomy 21:13and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:Deuteronomy 21:14‘And it hath been—if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.Deuteronomy 24:1When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house,Deuteronomy 24:2and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man’s,Deuteronomy 24:3and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:Deuteronomy 24:4Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it is before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance.Ezra 10:1And at Ezra’s praying, and at his making confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there have been gathered unto him out of Israel an assembly very great—men and women and children—for the people have wept, multiplying weeping.Ezra 10:2And Shechaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answereth and saith to Ezra, ‘We—we have trespassed against our God, and we settle strange women of the peoples of the land; and now there is hope for Israel concerning this,Ezra 10:3and now, let us make a covenant with our God, to cause all the women to go out, and that which is born of them, by the counsel of the Lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God, and according to law it is done;Ezra 10:4rise, for on thee is the matter, and we are with thee; be strong, and do.’Ezra 10:5And Ezra riseth, and causeth the heads of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear to do according to this word—and they swear.Ezra 10:6And Ezra riseth from before the house of God, and goeth unto the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib; yea, he goeth there, bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk, for he is mourning because of the trespass of the removal.Ezra 10:7And they cause a voice to pass over into Judah and Jerusalem, to all sons of the removal, to be gathered to Jerusalem,Ezra 10:8and every one who cometh not in by the third day, according to the counsel of the heads and of the elders, all his substance is devoted, and himself separated from the assembly of the removal.Ezra 10:9And gathered are all the men of Judah and Benjamin to Jerusalem by the third day, it is the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling on account of the matter and of the showers.Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest riseth, and saith unto them, ‘Ye—ye have trespassed, and ye settle strange women, to add to the guilt of Israel;Ezra 10:11and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.’Ezra 10:12And all the assembly answer and say with a great voice, ‘Right; according to thy word—on us to do;Ezra 10:13but the people are many, and it is the time of showers, and there is no power to stand without, and the work is not for one day, nor for two, for we have multiplied to transgress in this thing.Ezra 10:14Let, we pray thee, our heads of all the assembly stand, and all who are in our cities, who have settled strange wives, do come in at the times appointed, and with them the elders of city and city, and its judges, till the turning back of the fury of the wrath of our God from us, for this thing.’Ezra 10:15Only Jonathan son of Asahel, and Jahaziah son of Tikvah, stood against this, and Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Levite, helped them.Ezra 10:16And the sons of the removal do so, and Ezra the priest, and men, heads of the fathers, for the house of their fathers, are separated, even all of them by name, and they sit on the first day of the tenth month, to examine the matter;Nehemiah 13:23Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.Nehemiah 13:24And of their sons, half are speaking Ashdoditish—and are not knowing to speak Jewish—and according to the language of people and people.Nehemiah 13:25And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, ‘Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.Nehemiah 13:26‘By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel—even him did the strange women cause to sin.Nehemiah 13:27And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?’Nehemiah 13:28And one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest, is son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, and I cause him to flee from off me.Nehemiah 13:29Be mindful of them, O my God, for the redeemed of the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.Nehemiah 13:30And I have cleansed them from every stranger, and appoint charges to priests and to Levites, each in his work,Esther 1:10On the seventh day, as the heart of the king is glad with wine, he hath said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who are ministering in the presence of the king Ahasuerus,Esther 1:11to bring in Vashti the queen before the king, with a royal crown, to shew the peoples and the heads her beauty, for she is of good appearance,Esther 1:12and the queen Vashti refuseth to come in at the word of the king that is by the hand of the eunuchs, and the king is very wroth, and his fury hath burned in him.Esther 1:13And the king saith to wise men, knowing the times—for so is the word of the king before all knowing law and judgment,Esther 1:14and he who is near unto him is Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, seven heads of Persia and Media seeing the face of the king, who are sitting first in the kingdom—Esther 1:15‘According to law, what—to do with queen Vashti, because that she hath not done the saying of the king Ahasuerus by the hand of the eunuchs?’Esther 1:16And Memucan saith before the king and the heads, ‘Not against the king by himself hath Vashti the queen done perversely, but against all the heads, and against all the peoples that are in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus;Esther 1:17for go forth doth the word of the queen unto all the women, to render their husbands contemptible in their eyes, in their saying, The king Ahasuerus said to bring in Vashti the queen before him, and she did not come;Esther 1:18yea, this day do princesses of Persia and Media, who have heard the word of the queen, say so to all heads of the king, even according to the sufficiency of contempt and wrath.Esther 1:19If to the king it be good, there goeth forth a royal word from before him, and it is written with the laws of Persia and Media, and doth not pass away, that Vashti doth not come in before the king Ahasuerus, and her royalty doth the king give to her companion who is better than she;Esther 1:20and the sentence of the king that he maketh hath been heard in all his kingdom—for it is great—and all the wives give honour to their husbands, from great even unto small.’Esther 1:21And the thing is good in the eyes of the king, and of the princes, and the king doth according to the word of Memucan,Esther 1:22and sendeth letters unto all provinces of the king, unto province and province according to its writing, and unto people and people according to its tongue, for every man being head in his own house—and speaking according to the language of his people.Isaiah 50:1Thus said Jehovah: ‘Where is this—the bill of your mother’s divorce, Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Lo, for your iniquities ye have been sold, And for your transgressions Hath your mother been sent away.Isaiah 54:4And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more.Jeremiah 3:1Saying, ‘Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 3:8And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication—she also.Micah 2:9The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.Malachi 2:14And ye have said, ‘Wherefore?’ Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.Malachi 2:15And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.Malachi 2:16For I hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He who hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.Matthew 5:31‘And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;
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