Jeremiah 34:14
"Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free." But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.
Deuteronomy 15:12
If your fellow Hebrew -- whether male or female -- is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.
1 Samuel 8:7-8
The Lord said to Samuel, "Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.
1 Kings 9:22
Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; the Israelites served as his soldiers, attendants, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.
2 Kings 17:13-14
The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, "Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands."
Exodus 21:1-4
"These are the decisions that you will set before them:
Exodus 23:10-11
"For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.
1 Kings 21:25
(There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.
2 Chronicles 28:10
And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked God's messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.
Nehemiah 9:30
You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
Isaiah 50:1
This is what the Lord says: "Where is your mother's divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.
Isaiah 58:6
No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
Jeremiah 7:25-26
From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, day after day.
Jeremiah 11:8-10
But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.'"
Jeremiah 32:30
This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me from their earliest history until now and because they have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done. I, the Lord, affirm it!
Jeremiah 34:8-9
The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.
Ezekiel 20:4
"Are you willing to pronounce judgment? Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them with the abominable practices of their fathers,
Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Amos 2:6
This is what the Lord says: "Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold the innocent for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals.
Amos 8:6
We're eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!"
Zechariah 7:11-12
"But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.
Romans 7:14-17
For we know that the law is spiritual -- but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?