'Release' in the Bible

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

He will then sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside.

Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

The goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land, and he will release it there.

This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the Lord’s release of debts has been proclaimed.

Then Ben-hadad said to him, “I restore to you the cities that my father took from your father, and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, like my father set up in Samaria.”Ahab responded, “On the basis of this treaty, I release you.” So he made a treaty with him and released him.

So the commanders of hundreds did everything Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each brought their men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty on the Sabbath—for Jehoiada the priest did not release the divisions.

To start a conflict is to release a flood;stop the dispute before it breaks out.

who turned the world into a wilderness,who destroyed its citiesand would not release the prisoners to return home?”

This is what the Lord of Hosts says:Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed.All their captors hold them fast;they refuse to release them.

“So this is what the Lord God says: I will release a windstorm in My wrath. Torrential rain will come in My anger, and hailstones will fall in destructive fury.

As for you,because of the blood of your covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless cistern.

At the festival the governor’s custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted.

So when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it you want me to release for you—Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Messiah?”

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?”“Barabbas!” they answered.

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.

So Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?”

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.

Therefore, I will have Him whipped and then release Him.”

[For according to the festival he had to release someone to them.]

Then they all cried out together, “Take this man away! Release Barabbas to us!”

Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again,

A third time he said to them, “Why? What has this man done wrong? I have found in Him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore, I will have Him whipped and then release Him.”

You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

So Pilate said to Him, “You’re not talking to me? Don’t You know that I have the authority to release You and the authority to crucify You?”

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men!”

After they examined me, they wanted to release me, since I had not committed a capital offense.

Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,

say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates.”