Topic
SERVANT
Distinguish a bondservant (Greek: doulos), who was a slave, from a hired servant (Greek: diakonos), who was not a slave
Passages on this topic · 300
- Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
- Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
- Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- Genesis 16:6
But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
- Genesis 16:9
Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”
- Genesis 17:13
He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 17:27
All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
- Genesis 29:24
Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
- Genesis 29:29
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.
- Genesis 30:3
She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
- Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
- Genesis 37:26
Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
- Genesis 37:27
Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.
- Genesis 37:28
Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
- Genesis 37:36
The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
- Genesis 39:2
Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
- Genesis 39:3
His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
- Genesis 39:4
Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
- Genesis 39:5
From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
- Genesis 39:6
He left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He didn’t concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.
- Genesis 39:7
After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
- Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
- Genesis 39:9
No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
- Genesis 39:10
As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
- Genesis 39:11
About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.
- Genesis 39:12
She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:13
When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
- Genesis 39:14
she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
- Genesis 39:15
When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
- Genesis 39:16
She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
- Genesis 39:17
She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
- Genesis 39:18
and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
- Genesis 39:19
When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.
- Genesis 39:20
Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
- Genesis 41:9
Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.
- Genesis 41:10
Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
- Genesis 43:18
The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”
- Exodus 1:8
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
- Exodus 1:9
He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
- Exodus 1:10
Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
- Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 1:12
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 1:13
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
- Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
- Exodus 1:15
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
- Exodus 1:16
and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
- Exodus 1:17
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
- Exodus 1:18
The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”
- Exodus 1:19
The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
- Exodus 1:20
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
- Exodus 1:21
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
- Exodus 1:22
Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
- Exodus 2:1
A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
- Exodus 2:2
The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
- Exodus 2:3
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
- Exodus 2:4
His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
- Exodus 5:7
“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:8
The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
- Exodus 5:9
Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
- Exodus 5:10
The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
- Exodus 5:11
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
- Exodus 5:12
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- Exodus 5:13
The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
- Exodus 5:14
The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
- Exodus 12:44
but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
- Exodus 14:11
They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
- Exodus 14:12
Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
- Exodus 16:3
and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
- Exodus 20:10
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
- Exodus 21:1
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
- Exodus 21:2
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
- Exodus 21:3
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
- Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exodus 21:5
But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
- Exodus 21:6
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
- Exodus 21:7
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
- Exodus 21:8
If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
- Exodus 21:9
If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
- Exodus 21:10
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
- Exodus 21:11
If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
- Exodus 21:20
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
- Exodus 21:21
Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
- Exodus 21:26
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
- Exodus 21:27
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.
- Exodus 21:32
If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
- Exodus 22:3
If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
- Exodus 23:12
“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
- Leviticus 19:20
“‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 19:21
He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
- Leviticus 19:22
The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed: and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
- Leviticus 22:11
But if a priest buys a slave, purchased by his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.
- Leviticus 25:6
The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
- Leviticus 25:10
You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- Leviticus 25:35
“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.
- Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.
- Leviticus 25:37
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
- Leviticus 25:38
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
- Leviticus 25:39
“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
- Leviticus 25:40
As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:
- Leviticus 25:41
then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
- Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
- Leviticus 25:43
You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
- Leviticus 25:44
“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
- Leviticus 25:45
Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.
- Leviticus 25:46
You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
- Leviticus 25:47
“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;
- Leviticus 25:48
after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
- Leviticus 25:49
or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
- Leviticus 25:50
He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
- Leviticus 25:51
If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Leviticus 25:52
If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
- Leviticus 25:53
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
- Leviticus 25:54
If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.
- Leviticus 25:55
For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
- Numbers 31:28
Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.
- Numbers 31:29
Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering.
- Numbers 31:30
Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”
- Numbers 31:31
Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:32
Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
- Numbers 31:33
and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
- Numbers 31:34
and sixty-one thousand donkeys,
- Numbers 31:35
and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
- Numbers 31:36
The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
- Numbers 31:37
and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
- Numbers 31:38
The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.
- Numbers 31:39
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.
- Numbers 31:40
The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
- Numbers 31:41
Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 31:42
Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
- Numbers 31:43
(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
- Numbers 31:44
and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
- Numbers 31:45
and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
- Numbers 31:46
and sixteen thousand persons),
- Numbers 31:47
even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Deuteronomy 5:14
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
- Deuteronomy 6:12
then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 6:21
then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
- Deuteronomy 12:12
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
- Deuteronomy 12:18
but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
- Deuteronomy 15:12
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
- Deuteronomy 15:14
You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
- Deuteronomy 15:16
It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
- Deuteronomy 15:17
then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
- Deuteronomy 15:18
It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
- Deuteronomy 16:14
You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 20:14
but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
- Deuteronomy 21:10
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,
- Deuteronomy 21:11
and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife;
- Deuteronomy 21:12
then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.
- Deuteronomy 21:13
She shall take the clothing of her captivity off of herself, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 21:14
It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
- Deuteronomy 23:15
You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.
- Deuteronomy 23:16
He shall dwell with you, among you, in the place which he shall choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You shall not oppress him.
- Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 28:68
Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.
- Deuteronomy 29:10
All of you stand today in the presence of Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
- Deuteronomy 29:11
your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;
- Joshua 9:11
Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’
- Joshua 9:12
This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.
- Joshua 9:13
These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.”
- Joshua 9:14
The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.
- Joshua 9:15
Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.
- Joshua 9:16
At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
- Joshua 9:17
The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
- Joshua 9:18
The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.
- Joshua 9:19
But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.
- Joshua 9:20
We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”
- Joshua 9:21
The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”
- Joshua 9:22
Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?
- Joshua 9:23
Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
- Joshua 9:24
They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
- Joshua 9:25
Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”
- Joshua 9:26
He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.
- Joshua 9:27
That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.
- Judges 5:16
Why did you sit among the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.
- Judges 5:17
Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.
- Judges 5:18
Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
- Judges 5:23
‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’
- 1 Samuel 25:10
Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
- 1 Samuel 30:13
David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.
- 2 Samuel 9:10
Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
- 1 Kings 2:39
At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
- 1 Kings 2:40
Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.
- 1 Kings 2:41
Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
- 1 Kings 9:21
their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
- 2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
- 2 Kings 4:2
Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”
- 2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from of all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.
- 2 Kings 4:4
Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”
- 2 Kings 4:5
So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.
- 2 Kings 4:6
When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
- 2 Kings 4:7
Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
- 2 Kings 5:2
The Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
- 1 Chronicles 2:34
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
- 1 Chronicles 2:35
Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.
- 2 Chronicles 28:8
The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria.
- 2 Chronicles 28:10
Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?
- 2 Chronicles 36:20
He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
- 2 Chronicles 36:23
“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”
- Ezra 1:1
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
- Ezra 1:2
“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
- Ezra 1:3
Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 1:4
Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
- Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
- Psalms 116:16
Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.
- Proverbs 29:21
He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.
- Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;
- Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
- Jeremiah 34:8
The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
- Jeremiah 34:9
that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.
- Jeremiah 34:10
All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
- Jeremiah 34:11
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- Jeremiah 34:12
Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
- Jeremiah 34:13
“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
- Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.
- Jeremiah 34:15
You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;
- Jeremiah 34:16
but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”
- Jeremiah 34:17
Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jeremiah 34:18
I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:
- Jeremiah 34:19
the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;
- Jeremiah 34:20
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.
- Jeremiah 34:21
“I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life, and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you.
- Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Lamentations 5:13
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
- Ezekiel 27:13
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
- Joel 3:6
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
- Joel 3:7
Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, and will return your repayment on your own head;
- Joel 3:8
and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the men of Sheba, to a faraway nation, for Yahweh has spoken it.”
- Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
- Matthew 8:8
The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
- Matthew 8:9
For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
- Matthew 8:10
When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, “Most certainly I tell you, I haven’t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.
- Matthew 8:11
I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
- Matthew 8:12
but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Matthew 8:13
Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” His servant was healed in that hour.
- Matthew 18:25
But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
- Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
- Matthew 24:46
Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
- Matthew 24:47
Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
- Matthew 24:48
But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
- Matthew 24:49
and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
- Matthew 24:50
the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,
- Matthew 24:51
and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
- Mark 14:66
As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,
- Luke 7:2
A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.
- Luke 7:3
When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.
- Luke 7:4
When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him,
- Luke 7:5
for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us.”
- Luke 7:6
Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
- Luke 7:7
Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed.
- Luke 7:8
For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
- Luke 7:9
When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel.”
- Luke 7:10
Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.
- Luke 12:35
“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
- Luke 12:36
Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
- Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
- Luke 12:38
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
- Luke 12:39
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
- Luke 12:40
Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”
- Luke 12:41
Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
- Luke 12:42
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
- Luke 12:43
Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
- Luke 12:44
Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
- Luke 12:45
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
- Luke 12:46
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
- Luke 12:47
That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
- Luke 12:48
but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
- Luke 17:7
But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table,’
- Luke 17:8
and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?
- Luke 17:9
Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.
- John 8:32
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
- John 8:33
They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
- John 8:34
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
- John 8:35
A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
- Acts 6:9
But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
- Acts 7:19
The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
- Acts 7:34
I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
- Romans 6:16
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
- Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
- Romans 6:18
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
- Romans 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
- Romans 6:20
For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
- Romans 6:21
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
- Romans 6:22
But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
- 1 Corinthians 4:1
So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
- 1 Corinthians 7:21
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
- 1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
- 1 Corinthians 7:23
You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
- Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- Ephesians 6:8
knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
- Ephesians 6:9
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
- 1 Timothy 1:10
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
- Philemon 1:21
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
- 1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
- 2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
- Revelation 7:3
saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”
- Revelation 18:13
and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).