Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
We are sold
To be destroyed, etc
The enemy
Bible References
We are sold
Esther 3:9
If it pleases the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed. And I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those who have charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
Esther 4:7
And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and of the sum of the silver which Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews in order to destroy them.
Deuteronomy 28:68
And Jehovah shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again. And there you shall be sold to your enemies for men-slaves and women-slaves, and no man shall buy you.
1 Samuel 22:23
Stay with me, and do not fear. For he who seeks my life seeks your life. But you shall be in safekeeping with me.
To be destroyed, etc
Esther 3:13
And the letters were sent by postal riders into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take what they owned for a prize.
Esther 8:11
In them the king granted the Jews in every city to gather themselves, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province who desired to attack them, little ones and women, and to take what they owned for a prize,
Psalm 44:22
Yea, for Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
But if we
Genesis 37:26
And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we should kill our brother and hide his blood?
Deuteronomy 28:68
And Jehovah shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again. And there you shall be sold to your enemies for men-slaves and women-slaves, and no man shall buy you.
Joshua 9:23
And now you are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being slaves and woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons like their sons. And, lo, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage, to be slaves, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage. And there is no power for our hand, for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Joel 3:6
You have also sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you might remove them far from their border.
Amos 2:6
So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals;
The enemy
Esther 7:6
And Esther said, The man who is our adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. And Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Esther 3:9
If it pleases the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed. And I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those who have charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.