Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the LORD: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

Isaiah 52:3

For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."

Matthew 18:25

And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Exodus 21:7

"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

Leviticus 25:39

"If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

Deuteronomy 24:1-4

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

1 Kings 21:25

(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

2 Kings 17:17

And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."

Psalm 44:12

You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.

Isaiah 59:1-2

Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

Jeremiah 3:1

"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart."

Hosea 2:2-4

"Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband-- that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

Mark 10:4-12

They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

General references

Bible References

The bill

Deuteronomy 24:1
"When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
Jeremiah 3:1
"If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.
Hosea 2:2
"Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband-- that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;
Mark 10:4
They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."

Or which

Exodus 21:7
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.
Leviticus 25:39
"If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?
2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."
Nehemiah 5:5
Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards."
Esther 7:4
For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king."
Psalm 44:12
You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
Matthew 18:25
And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

For your iniquities

Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."
Isaiah 59:1
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
1 Kings 21:25
(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
2 Kings 17:17
And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
Jeremiah 3:8
She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
Jeremiah 4:18
Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart."

General references

Isaiah 42:24
Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?
Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."
Mark 10:4
They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."

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