Isaiah 50:1

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

Isaiah 42:24

Isaiah 52:3

Mark 10:4

Bible References

The bill

When a man shall take a wife and he married her, and it was if she shall find not favor in his eyes because he found in her a nakedness of the word: and he wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house.

Saying, If a man shall send away his wife, and she went from him and she was to another man, shall he yet turn back to her? Being defiled, shall not that land be defiled? and thou committedst fornication with many shepherds; and turn back to me, says Jehovah.

Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to loose.

Or which

And if a man shall sell his daughter for a maid, she shall not go forth as the servants went forth.

And when thy brother shall be poor with thee, and he was sold to thee, thou shalt not serve upon him the service of a servant.

How shall one chase a thousand; And two shall cause ten thousand to flee, If that their Rock had not sold them, And Jehovah delivered them up?

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.

For we were sold, I and my people, to cut off, to kill and to destroy. And if for servants and for maids we were sold, I was silent, but the enemy made not even for the loss of the king.

Thou wilt sell thy people without riches, and thou didst not increase by their price.

And he not having to give back, his lord ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children, and all which he had also to be given back.

For your iniquities

For thus said Jehovah, Ye sold yourselves gratuitously, and ye shall not be redeemed with silver.

Behold, the hand of Jehovah was not shortened from saving, and his ear heavy from hearing:

Only there was not as Ahab who was sold to do evil in the eves of Jehovah, whom Jezebel stimulated him.

And they will cause their sons and their daughters to pass through in fire, and divine divinations and enchantments, and they will be sold to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to Irritate him.

And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also.

Thy way and thy doings did these things to thee; this thine evil, for it was bitter because it reached even to thy heart.

General references

Who gave Jacob for a treading down, and Israel for spoils? did not Jehovah against whom we sinned? and they would not go in his ways and they heard not to his laws.

For thus said Jehovah, Ye sold yourselves gratuitously, and ye shall not be redeemed with silver.

And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to loose.