Prayer Tents Bible References - Prayer Tents

SERVANTS

Early mention of

Gen 9:25,26

DIVIDED INTO

- Male

- Female

- Bond

- Hired

Persons devoted to the service of another so called

Psa 119:49; Isa 56:6

The subjects of a prince or king so called

Exo 9:20; 11:8

Persons of low condition so called

Ecc 10:7

Persons devoted to God so called

Psa 119:49; Isa 56:6; Rom 1:1

The term often used to express humility

Gen 18:3; 33:5; 1Sa 20:7; 1Ki 20:32

HIRED

- Called hireling

Job 7:1; Joh 10:12,13

- Engaged by the year

Lev 25:53; Isa 16:14

- Engaged by the day

Mat 20:2

- Not to be oppressed

Deu 24:14

- To be paid without delay at the expiration of their service

Lev 19:13; Deu 24:15

- To be esteemed worthy of their hire

Luk 10:7

- To partake of the produce of the land in the sabbatical

year

Lev 25:6

- If foreigners not allowed to partake of the passover or

holy things

Exo 12:45; Lev 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

Lev 25:39,40

- Hebrew slaves serving strangers to be treated as

Lev 25:47,53

- Often stood in the market place waiting for employment

Mat 20:1-3

- Often will fed and taken care of

Luk 15:17

- Often oppressed and their wages kept back

Mal 3:5; Jam 5:4

SLAVES OR BOND

- Called bondmen

Gen 43:18; 44:9

- By birth

Gen 14:14; Psa 116:16; Jer 2:14

- By purchase

Gen 17:27; 37:36

- Captives taken in war often kept as

Deu 20:14; 2Ki 5:2

- Strangers sojourning in Israel might be purchased as

Lev 25:45

- Persons belonging to other nations might be purchased as

Lev 25:44

- Persons unable to pay their debts liable to be sold as

2Ki 4:1; Neh 5:4,5; Mat 18:25

- Thieves unable to make restitution were sold as

Exo 22:3

- More valuable than hired servants

Deu 15:18

- When Israelites not to be treated with rigour

Lev 25:39,40,46

- When Israelites to have their liberty after six years

service

Exo 21:2; Deu 15:12

- Israelites sold as, refusing their liberty, to have their

ears bored to the door

Exo 21:5,6; Deu 15:16,17

- Israelites sold to strangers as, might be redeemed by their

nearest of kin

Lev 25:47-55

- All Israelites sold as, to be free at the jubilee

Lev 25:10,40,41,54

- Could not when set free demand wives or children procured

during servitude

Exo 21:3,4

- To be furnished liberally, when their servitude expired

Deu 15:13,14

- When foreigners to be circumcised

Gen 17:13,27; Exo 12:44

- To be allowed to rest on the Sabbath

Exo 20:10

- To participate in all national rejoicings

Deu 12:18; 16:11,14

- Persons of distinction had many

Gen 14:14; Ecc 2:7

- Engaged in the most menial offices

1Sa 25:41; Joh 13:4,5

- Maimed of injured by masters to have their freedom

Exo 21:26,27

- Masters to be recompensed for injury done to

Exo 21:32

- Laws respecting the killing of

Exo 21:20,21

- Of others not to be coveted or enticed away

Exo 20:17; Deu 5:21

- Seeking protection not to be delivered up to masters

Deu 23:15

- Custom of branding, alluded to

Gal 6:17

- Sometimes rose to rank and station

Ecc 10:7

- Sometimes intermarried with their master's family

1Ch 2:34,35

- Laws respecting marriage with female

Exo 21:7-11

- Seizing and stealing of men for, condemned and punished by

the law

Exo 21:16; Deu 24:7; 1Ti 1:10

- Laws respecting, often violated

Jer 34:8-16

BOND, ILLUSTRATIVE

- Of Christ

Psa 40:6; Heb 10:5; Phi 2:7,8

- Of saints

1Co 6:20; 7:23

- Of the wicked

2Pe 2:19; Rom 6:16,19

Christ condescended to the office of

Mat 20:28; Luk 22:27; Joh 13:5; Phi 2:7

Are inferior to their masters

Luk 22:27

Should follow Christ's example

1Pe 2:21

DUTIES OF, TO MASTERS

- To pray for them

Gen 24:12

- To honour them

Mal 1:6; 1Ti 6:1

- To revere them the more, when they are believers

1Ti 6:2

- To be subject to them

1Pe 2:18

- To obey them

Eph 6:5; Tit 2:9

- To attend to their call

Psa 123:2

- To please them well in all things

Tit 2:9

- To sympathise with them

2Sa 12:18

- To prefer their business to their own necessary food

Gen 24:33

- To bless God for mercies shown to them

Gen 24:27,48

- To be faithful to them

Luk 16:10-12; 1Co 4:2; Tit 2:10

- To be profitable to them

Luk 19:15,16,18; Phm 1:11

- To be anxious for their welfare

1Sa 25:14-17; 2Ki 5:2,3

- To be earnest in transacting their business

Gen 24:54-56

- To be prudent in the management of their affairs

Gen 24:34-49

- To be industrious in labouring for them

Neh 4:16,23

- To be kind and attentive to their guests

Gen 43:23,24

- To be submissive even to the froward

Gen 16:6,9; 1Pe 2:18

- Not to answer them rudely

Tit 2:9

- Not to serve them with eye-service, as men-pleasers

Eph 6:6; Col 3:22

- Not to defraud them

Tit 2:10

Should be contented in their situation

1Co 7:20,21

Should be compassionate to their fellows

Mat 18:33

SHOULD SERVE

- For conscience towards God

1Pe 2:19

- In the fear of God

Eph 6:5; Col 3:22

- As the servants of Christ

Eph 6:5,6

- Heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men

Eph 6:7; Col 3:23

- As doing the will of God from the heart

Eph 6:6

- In singleness of heart

Eph 6:5; Col 3:22

- With good will

Eph 6:7

When patient under injury are acceptable to God

1Pe 2:19,20

When Good

- Are the servants of Christ

Col 3:24

- Are brethren beloved in the Lord

Phm 1:16

- Are the Lord's freemen

1Co 7:22

- Are partakers of gospel privileges

1Co 12:13; Gal 3:28; Eph 6:8; Col 3:11

- Deserve the confidence of their masters

Gen 24:2,4,10; 39:4

- Often exalted

Gen 41:40; Pro 17:2

- Often advanced by master

Gen 39:4,5

- To be honoured

Gen 24:31; Pro 27:18

- Bring God's blessing upon their masters

Gen 30:27,30; 39:3

- Adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things

Tit 2:10

- Have God with them

Gen 31:42; 39:21; Act 7:9,10

- Are prospered by God

Gen 39:3

- Are protected by God

Gen 31:7

- Are guided by God

Gen 24:7,27

- Are blessed by God

Mat 24:46

- Are mourned over after death

Gen 35:8

- Shall be rewarded

Eph 6:8; Col 3:24

The property of masters increased by faithful

Gen 30:29,30

CHARACTERISTICS OF WICKED SERVANTS

- Eye-service

Eph 6:6; Col 3:22

- Men-pleasers

Eph 6:6; Col 3:22

- Deceit

2Sa 19:26; Psa 101:6,7

- Quarrelsomeness

- Covetousness

- Lying

- Stealing

- Gluttony

- Unmerciful to their fellows

Mat 18:30

- Will not submit to correction

Pro 29:19

- Do not bear to be exalted

Pro 30:21,22; Isa 3:5

- Shall be punished

Mat 24:50

Good-Exemplified

- Eliezer

- Deborah

- Jacob

- Joseph

- Servants of Boaz

- Jonathan's armour bearer

- David's servants

- Captive maid

- Servants of Naaman

- Servants of Centurion

Mat 8:9

- Servants of Cornelius

Act 10:7

- Onesimus after his conversion

Phm 1:11

Bad-Exemplified

- Servants of Abraham and Lot

Gen 13:7

- Servants of Abimelech

Gen 21:25

- Absalom's servants [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master;

they were bad men rather than bad servants]

- Ziba

- Servants of Shimei

- Jeroboam

- Zimri

- Gehazi

- Servants of Amon

- Job's servants

- Servants of the High Priest

Mar 14:65

- Onesimus before his conversion

Phm 1:11

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