Jeremiah 34:14
Every seven years each of you must free any Hebrews who sold themselves to you. When they have served you for six years, you must set them free. But your ancestors refused to obey me or listen to me.
Deuteronomy 15:12
If you buy Israelites (your own brothers) as slaves, you must set them free after six years.
1 Samuel 8:7-8
Jehovah answered: Samuel, do everything they want you to do. I am really the one they have rejected as their king.
1 Kings 9:22
Solomon did not make slaves of Israelites. They served as his soldiers, officers, commanders, chariot captains, and cavalry.
2 Kings 17:13-14
Jehovah sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands. The commandments contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors. I handed them on to you through my servants the prophets.
Exodus 21:1-4
These are the ordinances you should set before them.
Exodus 23:10-11
Plant your land and gather in what it produces for six years.
1 Kings 21:25
No one else devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in Jehovah's sight as Ahab all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.
2 Chronicles 28:10
Now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty of sinning against Jehovah your God?
2 Chronicles 36:16
They mocked God's messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.
Nehemiah 9:30
You put up with them for years. You admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they did not listen. So you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
Isaiah 50:1
This is what Jehovah says: Where are your mother's divorce papers? Did I give her any to get rid of her? To which of my creditors did I sell you? You were sold because of your sins. I got rid of your mother because of your rebellion.
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?
Jeremiah 7:25-26
Since the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all my servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.
Jeremiah 11:8-10
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear (pay attention). They walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart! Therefore I brought on them all the words of the covenant I commanded them to do. But they did not do it.'
Jeremiah 32:30
Ever since they were young, the people of Israel and Judah have done what I consider evil. The people of Israel have made me furious by what they have done,' says Jehovah.
Jeremiah 34:8-9
Jehovah spoke his word to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah and all the people in Jerusalem promised to free their slaves.
Ezekiel 20:4
Are you willing to warn them, Ezekiel? Then remind them of the disgusting sins of their ancestors.
Ezekiel 20:8
They defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.
Amos 2:6
Jehovah said: I will not withdraw punishment for (three sins of Israel, even for four) the many transgressions of Israel! They sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes.
Amos 8:6
We may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Zechariah 7:11-12
They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Romans 7:14-17
For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am fleshly and sold under sin.
Romans 7:24
Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?