'Mistreated' in the Bible
Abram replied to Sarai, “Here, your slave is in your hands; do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai mistreated her so much that she ran away from her.
Then Moses became angry and said to the Lord, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”
our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt {a long time}, and the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.
But the Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us, and forced us to do hard labor.
Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”
“You haven’t wronged us, you haven’t mistreated us, and you haven’t taken anything from anyone’s hand,” they responded.
even though the men [were] very good to us; we were not mistreated and did not miss anything all the days we went about with them {while we were} in the field.
Then the king said to Shimei, "You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The Lord will punish you for what you did.
Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.
Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?
Here is what the Lord says concerning the false prophets: My heart and my mind are deeply disturbed. I tremble all over. I am like a drunk person, like a person who has had too much wine, because of the way the Lord and his holy word are being mistreated.
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
They severely oppress the people of the land, and {they committed robbery}, and they mistreated [the] needy and [the] poor, and they oppressed the alien {without} justice.
"In that day," {declares Yahweh,} "I will assemble the one who limps, and I will gather the one who has been scattered, and [those] whom I have mistreated.
Look, at that time I will deal with those who mistreated you. I will rescue the lame sheep and gather together the scattered sheep. I will take away their humiliation and make the whole earth admire and respect them.
and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them.
For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and mistreated and spit upon,
But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants and they would not survive.
When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.
About that time, Herod arrested some people who belonged to the church and mistreated them.
As you know, we suffered persecution and were mistreated in Philippi. Yet we were encouraged by our God to tell you his gospel in spite of strong opposition.
because he preferred being mistreated with God's people to enjoying the pleasures of sin for a short time.
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.
Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.
For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.