Verse 25
But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Referenced Verses
- Lev 25:39 : 39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
- 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
- Neh 5:5 : 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
- Neh 5:8 : 8 I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.
- Luke 7:42 : 42 When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
- Exod 21:2 : 2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
- Isa 50:1 : 1 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.