Verse 11

Now listen to me! Send back your captives whom you have taken from your relatives, for the LORD’s fierce anger is against you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • 2 Chr 28:8 : 8 The Israelites took captive 200,000 people from their relatives—women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great amount of plunder and brought it to Samaria.
  • Ezra 10:14 : 14 Let our leaders act on behalf of the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God regarding this matter is turned away from us.
  • Isa 58:6 : 6 Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loosen the chains of injustice, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to break every yoke?
  • Jer 34:14-15 : 14 At the end of seven years, each of you must set free your Hebrew brothers who have been sold to you and have served you for six years. You must release them to go free. But your ancestors did not obey me or pay attention to me. 15 Recently, you repented and did what is right in my sight by proclaiming freedom, each man for his neighbor. You made a covenant before me in the house where my name is called upon.
  • Matt 5:7 : 7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
  • Heb 13:1-3 : 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing this, some have entertained angels without knowing it. 3 Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were in the body with them.