For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in this city which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of hosts.’

And all the officials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, so that no one should keep them any longer in bondage; they obeyed, and set them free.

“At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my relatives; and if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’

The doorways of the side chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all around.

The Lord said, “Surely I will set you free for purposes of good;
Surely I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you
In a time of disaster and a time of distress.

that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.

But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.

Yet you turned and profaned My name, and each man took back his male servant and each man his female servant whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your male servants and female servants.”’

But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath; only do not take my son back there.”

“The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.

The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the temple

“Who sent out the wild donkey free?
And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To set free those who were doomed to death,

The king sent and released him,
The ruler of peoples, and set him free.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Who executes justice for the oppressed;
Who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free.