2 Kings 4:1 References

1 Now a certain woman of the wives of athe sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and bthe creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."

b Leviticus 25:39-41, Leviticus 25:48, 1 Samuel 22:2, Nehemiah 5:2-5


Leviticus 25

39 'aIf a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service.
40 'He shall be with you as a hired man, as aif he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.
41 'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.

Leviticus 25

48 then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

1 Samuel 22

2 Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were aabout four hundred men with him.

Nehemiah 5

2 For there were those who said, "We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us aget grain that we may eat and live."
3 There were others who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our houses that we might get grain because of the famine."
4 Also there were those who said, "We have borrowed money afor the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards.
5 "Now aour flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, bwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others."

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