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, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her ou
Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
Mark 10:4
And they said, Moses permitted to write a document of divorce, and to divorce her.

Or which

Exodus 21:7
And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
Leviticus 25:39
And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not make him to serve as a bondman.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them, and LORD had delivered them up?
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, 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
Esther 7:4
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 would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
Psalm 44:12
Thou sell thy people for nothing, and have not increased by their price.
Matthew 18:25
But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made.

For your iniquities

Isaiah 52:3
For thus says LORD: Ye were sold for nothing, and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Isaiah 59:1
Behold, LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
1 Kings 21:25
(But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD to provoke him to anger.

General references

Isaiah 42:24
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not LORD? He against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, nor were they obedient to his law.
Isaiah 52:3
For thus says LORD: Ye were sold for nothing, and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Mark 10:4
And they said, Moses permitted to write a document of divorce, and to divorce her.