1 Kings 20:39

As the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant marched out into the middle of the battle. Suddenly, a man turned aside and brought someone to me and said, ‘Guard this man! If he is ever missing, it will be your life in place of his life, or you will weigh out 75 pounds of silver.’

2 Kings 10:24

Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.

Now Jehu had stationed 80 men outside, and he warned them, “Whoever allows any of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape will forfeit his life for theirs.”

Exodus 21:30

If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.

Judges 9:7-20

When they told Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and called to them:

Listen to me, lords of Shechem,
and may God listen to you:

2 Samuel 12:1-7

So the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he arrived, he said to him:

There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 14:5-7

“What’s the matter?” the king asked her.

“To tell the truth, I am a widow; my husband died,” she said.

1 Kings 20:42

The prophet said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you released from your hand the man I had set apart for destruction, it will be your life in place of his life and your people in place of his people.’”

Job 36:18

Be careful that no one lures you with riches;
do not let a large ransom lead you astray.

Psalm 49:7

Yet these cannot redeem a person
or pay his ransom to God—

Proverbs 6:35

He will not be appeased by anything
or be persuaded by lavish gifts.

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Proverbs 13:8

Riches are a ransom for a man’s life,
but a poor man hears no threat.

Mark 12:1-12

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

1 Peter 1:18-19

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

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