2 Kings 4:1
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The Widow’s Oil Multiplied
4 One of the wives of the sons of the prophets(A) cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.(B) Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.”(C)
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.(A) Some of our daughters are already enslaved,(B) but we are powerless[a] because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
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- Nehemiah 5:5 Lit but there is not the power in our hand
Isaiah 50:1
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50 This is what the Lord says:
Where is your mother’s divorce certificate
that I used to send her away?(A)
Or who were My creditors that I sold you to?(B)
Look, you were sold for your iniquities,(C)
and your mother was put away
because of your transgressions.
Matthew 18:25
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25 Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.(A)
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