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  • Deuteronomy 15:12View Full Chapter

    12 If any of your fellow Hebrews, male or female, sell themselves into your service, they can work for you for six years, but in the seventh year you must set them free from your service.

  • 1 Samuel 4:9View Full Chapter

    Pull yourselves together and act like men, Philistines! Otherwise, you’ll serve the Hebrews like they’ve been serving you. Act like men and fight!”

  • 1 Samuel 13:3View Full Chapter

    Jonathan attacked the Philistine fort at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. So Saul sounded the alarm throughout the land and said, “Hebrews! Listen up!”

  • 1 Samuel 13:7View Full Chapter

    Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan River, going into the land of Gad and Gilead.

    Saul stayed at Gilgal, and the troops followed him anxiously.

  • 1 Samuel 13:19View Full Chapter

    Philistine ironworking

    19 No metalworker was to be found anywhere in Israelite territory because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not make swords and spears.”

  • 1 Samuel 14:11View Full Chapter

    11 So they showed themselves to the Philistine fort, and the Philistines said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes they’ve been hiding in!”

  • 1 Samuel 14:21View Full Chapter

    21 Even those Hebrews who had earlier joined up with the Philistines and moved into their camp changed sides to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

  • 1 Samuel 29:3View Full Chapter

    “Who are these Hebrews?” the Philistine commanders asked.

    “That’s David,” Achish told them, “the servant of Israel’s King Saul. He’s been with me a year or so now. I haven’t found anything wrong with him from the day he defected until now.”

  • Jeremiah 34:14View Full Chapter

    14 I said that every seventh year each of you must free any Hebrews who have been sold to you. After they have served you for six years, you must set them free. But your ancestors didn’t obey or pay any attention to me.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:22View Full Chapter

    22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

  • Hebrews 1View Full Chapter

    The Son is God’s ultimate messenger

    In the past, God spoke through the prophets to our ancestors in many times and many ways. In these final days, though, he spoke to us through a Son. God made his Son the heir of everything and created the world through him. The Son is the light of God’s glory and the imprint of God’s being. He maintains everything with his powerful message. After he carried out the cleansing of people from their sins, he sat down at the right side of the highest majesty. And the Son became so much greater than the other messengers, such as angels, that he received a more important title than theirs.

    Speaking to the Son and angels

    After all, when did God ever say to any of the angels:

    You are my Son.
            Today I have become your Father?

    Or, even,

    I will be his Father,
            and he will be my Son?

    But then, when he brought his firstborn into the world, he said,

    All of God’s angels must worship him.

    He talks about the angels:

    He’s the one who uses the spirits for his messengers
            and who uses flames of fire as ministers.

    But he says to his Son,

    God, your throne is forever
            and your kingdom’s scepter is a rod of justice.
    You loved righteousness and hated lawless behavior.
            That is why God, your God,
            has anointed you more than your companions with the oil of joy.

    10 And he says,

    You, Lord, laid the earth’s foundations in the beginning,
            and the heavens are made by your hands.
    11 They will pass away,
            but you remain.
    They will all wear out like old clothes.
    12         You will fold them up like a coat.
    They will be changed like a person changes clothes,
            but you stay the same,
            and the years of your life won’t come to an end.

    13 When has he ever said to any of the angels,

    Sit at my right side
            until I put your enemies under your feet like a footstool?

    14 Aren’t all the angels ministering spirits who are sent to serve those who are going to inherit salvation?

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