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.
The bill
Or which
For your iniquities
General references
Bible References
The bill
Deuteronomy 24:1
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that 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 from his house,
Jeremiah 3:1 God says, “If a husband divorces his wife
And she goes from him
And belongs to another man,
Will he still return to her?
Will not that land be completelypolluted?
But youare a harlot with many lovers;
Yet youturn to Me,” declares the Lord.
And she goes from him
And belongs to another man,
Will he still return to her?
Will not that land be completely
But you
Yet you
Hosea 2:2 “Contend with your mother, contend,
For she isnot my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her put away herharlotry from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,
For she is
And let her put away her
And her adultery from between her breasts,
Mark 10:4
They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
Or which
Exodus 21:7
“If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.
Leviticus 25:39
‘If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.
Deuteronomy 32:30 “How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless theirRock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their
And the Lord had given them up?
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
Nehemiah 5:5
Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
Esther 7:4
for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king.”
Psalm 44:12 You sell Your people cheaply,
And have notprofited by their sale.
And have not
Matthew 18:25 But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.
For your iniquities
Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the Lord, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.”
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not so short
That it cannot save;
Nor is His ear so dull
That it cannot hear.
That it cannot save;
That it cannot hear.
1 Kings 21:25 Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him.
2 Kings 17:17
Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him.
Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
Jeremiah 4:18 “Your ways and your deeds
Havebrought these things to you.
This is your evil. Howbitter!
How it has touched your heart!”
Have
This is your evil. How
How it has touched your heart!”
General references
Isaiah 42:24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
And in whose ways theywere not willing to walk,
And whose law they did notobey?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
And in whose ways they
And whose law they did not
Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the Lord, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.”
Mark 10:4
They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”