Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Israel
He a home-born
Bible References
Israel
Exodus 4:22
and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born is Israel,
Isaiah 50:1
Thus said Jehovah: 'Where is this -- the bill of your mother's divorce, Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Lo, for your iniquities ye have been sold, And for your transgressions Hath your mother been sent away.
He a home-born
Genesis 15:3
And Abram saith, 'Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.