17. MASTERS AND SERVANTS
MASTERS AND SERVANTS Pre-Mosaic Servitude. THE CURSE OF CANAAN.
SEE
Genesis 9:25 SERVANTS IN THE TIME OF ABRAHAM.
(Circumcised Along With The Family.)
Genesis 17:27 (Given As Dowry.)
Genesis 29:29 (Employed As Soldiers.)
Genesis 14:14 JOSEPH SOLD TWICE.
Genesis 39:1-3 BECOMES OVERSEER.
Genesis 39:4-6 BONDAGE FOR THEFT.
Genesis 44:14 Genesis 44:16-17
Genesis 44:33 THE ISRAELITISH BONDAGE IN EGYPT.
(Its Severity.)
Exodus 5:15-17 (Borrowing In Reprisal.)
Exodus 12:35-36 Hebrew Servitude. NOT PROPERLY SLAVERY.
Leviticus 25:43 Deuteronomy 24:7 BUT BONDAGE AN EVIL AND A DEGRADATION.
1 Kings 9:22 HEBREWS SOLD TO HEBREWS FOR THEFT.
Exodus 22:2-3 ON ACCOUNT OF POVERTY: FOR SIX YEARS, OR LESS IF THE YEAR OF JUBILEE CAME SOONER.
Exodus 21:1-4 Leviticus 25:39-42 Deuteronomy 15:12-15 Deuteronomy 15:18
2 Kings 4:1 FOR MORE THAN SIX YEARS.
Leviticus 25:10 Deuteronomy 15:16-17 VOWED SERVANTS OF THE SANCTUARY.
Leviticus 27:8 TO NON-HEBREWS.
SEE
Joel 3:6 AND (Amos 1:6) Leviticus 25:49-55 HEBREW MAIDSERVANTS.
Exodus 21:7-11 PENALTY FOR ABUSE OF BOND SERVANTS.
Exodus 21:26-27 A SLAVE OWNING SLAVES.
2 Samuel 9:10 PURSUIT AND RECOVERY OF, FUGITIVE BOND SERVANTS.
(By Hebrew Master.)
1 Kings 2:39-41 (But Not Allowed To Gentiles.) Deuteronomy 23:15-16 HEBREW SERVITUDE ABOLISHED.
Jeremiah 34:8-11 Jeremiah 34:14-20 ATTEMPT TO REVIVE IT.
Nehemiah 5:1-12 Slaves Of Foreign Descent Among The Hebrews.
SLAVES MIGHT BE PURCHASED OF THE HEATHEN.
Leviticus 25:44-46 BUT MAN-STEALING PROHIBITED.
Exodus 21:16 CAPTIVES REDUCED TO SERVITUDE.
(Women And Children.)
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Numbers 31:35 Deuteronomy 20:14 Deuteronomy 21:10-11 (A Captive Wife Not To Be Sold.) Deuteronomy 21:14 (The Lord's Tribute.)
SEE Numbers 31:28-30
Numbers 31:47 CANAANITES ENSLAVED.
(The Gibeonites.)
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2 Samuel 21:2 (Remnants Of The Canaanites.)
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(The Nethinim.)
Ezra 2:43-54 Nehemiah 7:46-56 Originally Gibeonites (Joshua 9:21-27), but afterwards apparently recruited from other captives taken in war. -H.
(The Children Of Solomon's Servants.)
Ezra 2:55-58 Nehemiah 7:57-60 Greco-Roman Servitude.
ST. PAUL'S ADVICE TO SERVANTS.
1 Corinthians 7:21-24 ONESIMUS SENT BACK TO HIS MASTER.
Philem. 10-14 PHILEMON TO RECEIVE HIM AS A BROTHER.
Philem. 15-21 DUTIES OF SERVANTS.
(To Be Respectful.)
(Obedient.)
(Faithful.) 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 Colossians 3:23-24
Titus 2:10 DUTIES OF MASTERS.
(To Be Just.)
(And Gentle.)
Hired Servants.
WORKING FOR WAGES NOT WHOLLY UNKNOWN AMONG THE HEBREWS.
SEE
JACOB.
(To Work For Stated Wages.)
Genesis 29:15 (His Service For His Wives.) Genesis 30:25-26 (His Wages To Be In Cattle.) Genesis 30:27-34 (His Wages Often Changed.)
(He Ran Away.) Genesis 31:20-23 TREATMENT OF HIRELINGS.
(Not To Be Oppressed.) Deuteronomy 24:14 (To Be Paid Daily.)
Leviticus 19:13 Deuteronomy 24:15 (The Withholding Of Wages A Crime.)
James 5:4 CHIRST'S PARABLE OF THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD.
Matthew 20:1-15 Of Servants In General.
GEHAZI, AN OFFICIOUS AND DISHONEST SERVANT.
2 Kings 5:20-24 AMNON'S VALET.
2 Samuel 13:17 HOUSEHOLD OF A CENTURION.
MESSENGERS.
Proverbs 26:6 SERVANTS TO BE DESIRED.
Proverbs 12:9 Ecclesiastes 2:7 THEIR PROPER RANK.
John 13:16-17 NOT APT TO BECOME GOOD MASTERS.
Proverbs 19:10 Proverbs 30:21-23 Lamentations 5:8 BUT MAY CHANGE PLACES WITH PROFLIGATE SONS.
Proverbs 17:2 HINTS ABOUT THE MANAGEMENT OF SERVANTS.
Proverbs 30:10 Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 GOOD MEN SERVANTS OF THE LORD.
Revelation 7:3 THE UNJUST STEWARD A PATTERN OF PRUDENCE.
Luke 16:1-13 THE FINAL DOOM OF UNFAITHFUL SERVANTS OF THE LORD.