dSee ch. 5:7-19
Genesis 15:13
13Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain athat your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and bthey will be afflicted for cfour hundred years.Exodus 1:13-14
13So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel dwork as slaves 14and emade their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.Judges 2:18
18Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, fthe Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. gFor the Lord was moved to pity by htheir groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.Judges 3:8
8Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, iand he sold them into the hand of jCushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.Judges 4:3
3Then the people of Israel kcried out to the Lord for help, for he had l900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.Ezra 9:9
9 mFor we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, nbut has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection ▼▼Hebrew a wall
in Judea and Jerusalem. Nehemiah 5:4-8
4And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for pthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5Now qour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet rwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”6I was very angry when I heard stheir outcry and these words. 7I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, t“You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them 8and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, uhave bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.
John 19:25
25 vbut standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
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