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Bibliography InformationTorrey, R.A., Reverand. "Entry for 'Servants'". "The New Topical Text Book".. 1897.
- Early mention of
Genesis 9:25 Genesis 9:26 - DIVIDED INTO
- Male
Genesis 24:34 ; 32:5
- Female
Genesis 16:6 ; 32:5
- Bond
Genesis 43:18 ; Leviticus 25:46
- Hired
Mark 1:20 ; Luke 15:17
- Male
- Persons devoted to the service of another so called
Psalms 119:49 ; Isaiah 56:6 - The subjects of a prince or king so called
Exodus 9:20 ; 11:8 - Persons of low condition so called
Ecclesiastes 10:7 - Persons devoted to God so called
Psalms 119:49 ; Isaiah 56:6 ; Romans 1:1 - The term often used to express humility
Genesis 18:3 ; 33:5 ; 1 Samuel 20:7 ; 1 Kings 20:32 - HIRED
- Called hireling
Job 7:1 ; John 10:12 John 10:13
- Engaged by the year
Leviticus 25:53 ; Isaiah 16:14
- Engaged by the day
Matthew 20:2
- Not to be oppressed
Deuteronomy 24:14
- To be paid without delay at the expiration of their service
Leviticus 19:13 ; Deuteronomy 24:15
- To be esteemed worthy of their hire
Luke 10:7
- To partake of the produce of the land in the sabbatical year
Leviticus 25:6
- If foreigners not allowed to partake of the passover or holy things
Exodus 12:45 ; Leviticus 22:10
- Anxiety of, for the end of their daily toil, alluded to
Job 7:2
- Hebrew slaves serving their brethren to be treated as
Leviticus 25:39 Leviticus 25:40
- Hebrew slaves serving strangers to be treated as
Leviticus 25:47 Leviticus 25:53
- Often stood in the market place waiting for employment
Matthew 20:1-3
- Often will fed and taken care of
Luke 15:17
- Often oppressed and their wages kept back
Malachi 3:5 ; James 5:4
- Called hireling
- SLAVES OR BOND
- Called bondmen
Genesis 43:18 ; 44:9
- By birth
Genesis 14:14 ; Psalms 116:16 ; Jeremiah 2:14
- By purchase
Genesis 17:27 ; 37:36
- Captives taken in war often kept as
Deuteronomy 20:14 ; 2 Kings 5:2
- Strangers sojourning in Israel might be purchased as
Leviticus 25:45
- Persons belonging to other nations might be purchased as
Leviticus 25:44
- Persons unable to pay their debts liable to be sold as
2 Kings 4:1 ; Nehemiah 5:4 Nehemiah 5:5 ; Matthew 18:25
- Thieves unable to make restitution were sold as
Exodus 22:3
- More valuable than hired servants
Deuteronomy 15:18
- When Israelites not to be treated with rigour
Leviticus 25:39 Leviticus 25:40 Leviticus 25:46
- When Israelites to have their liberty after six years service
Exodus 21:2 ; Deuteronomy 15:12
- Israelites sold as, refusing their liberty, to have their ears bored to the door
Exodus 21:5 Exodus 21:6 ; Deuteronomy 15:16 Deuteronomy 15:17
- Israelites sold to strangers as, might be redeemed by their nearest of kin
Leviticus 25:47-55
- All Israelites sold as, to be free at the jubilee
Leviticus 25:10 Leviticus 25:40 Leviticus 25:41 Leviticus 25:54
- Could not when set free demand wives or children procured during servitude
Exodus 21:3 Exodus 21:4
- To be furnished liberally, when their servitude expired
Deuteronomy 15:13 Deuteronomy 15:14
- When foreigners to be circumcised
Genesis 17:13 Genesis 17:27 ; Exodus 12:44
- To be allowed to rest on the Sabbath
Exodus 20:10
- To participate in all national rejoicings
Deuteronomy 12:18 ; Deuteronomy 16:11 Deuteronomy 16:14
- Persons of distinction had many
Genesis 14:14 ; Ecclesiastes 2:7
- Engaged in the most menial offices
1 Samuel 25:41 ; John 13:4 John 13:5
- Maimed of injured by masters to have their freedom
Exodus 21:26 Exodus 21:27
- Masters to be recompensed for injury done to
Exodus 21:32
- Laws respecting the killing of
Exodus 21:20 Exodus 21:21
- Of others not to be coveted or enticed away
Exodus 20:17 ; Deuteronomy 5:21
- Seeking protection not to be delivered up to masters
Deuteronomy 23:15
- Custom of branding, alluded to
Galatians 6:17
- Sometimes rose to rank and station
Ecclesiastes 10:7
- Sometimes intermarried with their masters family
1 Chronicles 2:34 1 Chronicles 2:35
- Laws respecting marriage with female
Exodus 21:7-11
- Seizing and stealing of men for, condemned and punished by the law
Exodus 21:16 ; Deuteronomy 24:7 ; 1 Timothy 1:10
- Laws respecting, often violated
Jeremiah 34:8-16
- Called bondmen
- BOND, ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of Christ
Psalms 40:6 ; Hebrews 10:5 ; Philippians 2:7 Philippians 2:8
- Of saints
1 Corinthians 6:20 ; 7:23
- Of the wicked
2 Peter 2:19 ; Romans 6:16 Romans 6:19
- Of Christ
- Christ condescended to the office of
Matthew 20:28 ; Luke 22:27 ; John 13:5 ; Philippians 2:7 - Are inferior to their masters
Luke 22:27 - Should follow Christs example
1 Peter 2:21 - DUTIES OF, TO MASTERS
- To pray for them
Genesis 24:12
- To honour them
Malachi 1:6 ; 1 Timothy 6:1
- To revere them the more, when they are believers
1 Timothy 6:2
- To be subject to them
1 Peter 2:18
- To obey them
Ephesians 6:5 ; Titus 2:9
- To attend to their call
Psalms 123:2
- To please them well in all things
Titus 2:9
- To sympathise with them
2 Samuel 12:18
- To prefer their business to their own necessary food
Genesis 24:33
- To bless God for mercies shown to them
Genesis 24:27 Genesis 24:48
- To be faithful to them
Luke 16:10-12 ; 1 Corinthians 4:2 ; Titus 2:10
- To be profitable to them
Luke 19:15 Luke 19:16 Luke 19:18 ; Philemon 1:11
- To be anxious for their welfare
1 Samuel 25:14-17 ; 2 Kings 5:2 2 Kings 5:3
- To be earnest in transacting their business
Genesis 24:54-56
- To be prudent in the management of their affairs
Genesis 24:34-49
- To be industrious in labouring for them
Nehemiah 4:16 Nehemiah 4:23
- To be kind and attentive to their guests
Genesis 43:23 Genesis 43:24
- To be submissive even to the froward
Genesis 16:6 Genesis 16:9 ; 1 Peter 2:18
- Not to answer them rudely
Titus 2:9
- Not to serve them with eye-service, as men-pleasers
Ephesians 6:6 ; Colossians 3:22
- Not to defraud them
Titus 2:10
- To pray for them
- Should be contented in their situation
1 Corinthians 7:20 1 Corinthians 7:21 - Should be compassionate to their fellows
Matthew 18:33 - SHOULD SERVE
- For conscience towards God
1 Peter 2:19
- In the fear of God
Ephesians 6:5 ; Colossians 3:22
- As the servants of Christ
Ephesians 6:5 Ephesians 6:6
- Heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men
Ephesians 6:7 ; Colossians 3:23
- As doing the will of God from the heart
Ephesians 6:6
- In singleness of heart
Ephesians 6:5 ; Colossians 3:22
- With good will
Ephesians 6:7
- For conscience towards God
- When patient under injury are acceptable to God
1 Peter 2:19 1 Peter 2:20 - When Good
- Are the servants of Christ
Colossians 3:24
- Are brethren beloved in the Lord
Philemon 1:16
- Are the Lords freemen
1 Corinthians 7:22
- Are partakers of gospel privileges
1 Corinthians 12:13 ; Galatians 3:28 ; Ephesians 6:8 ; Colossians 3:11
- Deserve the confidence of their masters
Genesis 24:2 Genesis 24:4 Genesis 24:10 ; 39:4
- Often exalted
Genesis 41:40 ; Proverbs 17:2
- Often advanced by master
Genesis 39:4 Genesis 39:5
- To be honoured
Genesis 24:31 ; Proverbs 27:18
- Bring Gods blessing upon their masters
Genesis 30:27 Genesis 30:30 ; 39:3
- Adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things
Titus 2:10
- Have God with them
Genesis 31:42 ; 39:21 ; Acts 7:9 Acts 7:10
- Are prospered by God
Genesis 39:3
- Are protected by God
Genesis 31:7
- Are guided by God
Genesis 24:7 Genesis 24:27
- Are blessed by God
Matthew 24:46
- Are mourned over after death
Genesis 35:8
- Shall be rewarded
Ephesians 6:8 ; Colossians 3:24
- Are the servants of Christ
- The property of masters increased by faithful
Genesis 30:29 Genesis 30:30 - CHARACTERISTICS OF WICKED SERVANTS
- Eye-service
Ephesians 6:6 ; Colossians 3:22
- Men-pleasers
Ephesians 6:6 ; Colossians 3:22
- Deceit
2 Samuel 19:26 ; Psalms 101:6 Psalms 101:7
- Quarrelsomeness
Genesis 13:7 ; 26:20
- Covetousness
2 Kings 5:20
- Lying
2 Kings 5:22 2 Kings 5:24
- Stealing
Titus 2:10
- Gluttony
Matthew 24:49
- Unmerciful to their fellows
Matthew 18:30
- Will not submit to correction
Proverbs 29:19
- Do not bear to be exalted
Proverbs 30:21 Proverbs 30:22 ; Isaiah 3:5
- Shall be punished
Matthew 24:50
- Eye-service
- Good-Exemplified
- Eliezer
Genesis 24:1-67
- Deborah
Genesis 24:59 ; 35:8
- Jacob
Genesis 31:36-40
- Joseph
Genesis 39:3 ; Acts 7:10
- Servants of Boaz
Ruth 2:4
- Jonathans armour bearer
1 Samuel 14:6 1 Samuel 14:7
- Davids servants
2 Samuel 12:18
- Captive maid
2 Kings 5:2-4
- Servants of Naaman
2 Kings 5:13
- Servants of Centurion
Matthew 8:9
- Servants of Cornelius
Acts 10:7
- Onesimus after his conversion
Philemon 1:11
- Eliezer
- Bad-Exemplified
- Servants of Abraham and Lot
Genesis 13:7
- Servants of Abimelech
Genesis 21:25
- Absaloms servants [Absaloms servants obeyed a bad master; they were bad men rather than bad servants]
2 Samuel 13:28 2 Samuel 13:29 ; 14:30
- Ziba
2 Samuel 16:1-4
- Servants of Shimei
1 Kings 2:39
- Jeroboam
1 Kings 11:26
- Zimri
1 Kings 16:9
- Gehazi
2 Kings 5:20
- Servants of Amon
2 Kings 21:23
- Jobs servants
Job 19:16
- Servants of the High Priest
Mark 14:65
- Onesimus before his conversion
Philemon 1:11
- Servants of Abraham and Lot
Bibliography InformationTorrey, R.A., Reverand. "Entry for 'Servants'". "The New Topical Text Book".