TOPICAL BIBLE
Servant
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2 Kings 21:23Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.1 Chronicles 2:34Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. He also had an Egyptian servant named Jarha.1 Chronicles 2:35Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to his servant Jarha, and she bore to him Attai.2 Chronicles 2:10I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”2 Chronicles 28:8Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.2 Chronicles 28:10And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?2 Chronicles 36:20Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.2 Chronicles 36:23“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”Ezra 1:1In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:Ezra 1:2“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.Ezra 1:3Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.Ezra 1:4And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”Nehemiah 4:16And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of JudahNehemiah 4:23So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the guards with me changed out of our clothes; each carried his weapon, even to go for water.Nehemiah 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.Esther 7:4For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”Job 7:1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?Job 7:2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.Job 19:15My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.Job 19:16I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.Job 31:13If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,Job 31:14what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?Psalm 116:16Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.Psalm 123:2As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.Proverbs 12:9Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.Proverbs 13:17A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.Proverbs 17:2A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.Proverbs 19:10Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!Proverbs 25:13Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a trustworthy messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.Proverbs 26:6Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.Proverbs 27:18Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.Proverbs 27:27You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.Proverbs 29:19A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond.Proverbs 29:21A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.Proverbs 30:10Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will bear the guilt.Proverbs 30:21Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:Proverbs 30:22a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,Proverbs 30:23an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.Ecclesiastes 2:7I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,Ecclesiastes 7:21Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.Isaiah 52:3For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”Jeremiah 2:14Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,Jeremiah 34:8After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORDJeremiah 34:9that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.Jeremiah 34:10So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,Jeremiah 34:11but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.Jeremiah 34:12Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,Jeremiah 34:13“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:Jeremiah 34:14Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.Jeremiah 34:15Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.Jeremiah 34:16But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.Jeremiah 34:17Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.Jeremiah 34:18And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.Jeremiah 34:19The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,Jeremiah 34:20I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.Jeremiah 34:21And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”Lamentations 5:8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.