Topic
Bondage
25 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 2:23Easton · ISBE · Nave Of Israelites in Egypt
¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
- Exodus 1:14ISBE · Nave Of Israelites in Egypt
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- Ezra 9:8Easton · ISBE
And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
- Ezra 9:9Easton · Nave In PERSIA
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall…
- Isaiah 14:3Easton · ISBE
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
- Exodus 2:25Easton
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
- Exodus 5:1–23Easton
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not…
- Exodus 6:6Nave Of Israelites in Egypt
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
- Exodus 13:3ISBE
¶ And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
- Exodus 13:14ISBE
¶ And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
- Exodus 20:2ISBE
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 5:6ISBE
¶ I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
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- Nehemiah 5:5 ISBE
- Nehemiah 5:18 ISBE
- Romans 8:15 ISBE
- Romans 8:21 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 7:15 ISBE
- Galatians 2:4 ISBE
- Galatians 4:3 ISBE
- Galatians 4:9 ISBE
- Galatians 4:24 ISBE
- Galatians 4:25 ISBE
- Galatians 5:1 ISBE
- Hebrews 2:15 ISBE
- 2 Peter 2:19 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 8 references
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 21 references
bon'-daj: Used in two senses in Scripture, a literal and a metaphorical sense.
(1) In the former sense it refers
(a) to the condition of the Hebrews ('abhodhah) in Egypt (Ex 1:14 the King James Version; Ex 2:23 and often) which is frequently called "the house of bondage" ("slaves," `abhadhim), Ex 13:3,14; 20:2; De 5:6 and often. It also refers to the condition of the Hebrews in Babylonia (Isa 14:3, the King James Version) and in Persia (Ezr 9:8 f), where a slightly different form of the same root (`abhedhuth) is used in the original. In both these cases the bondage was not so much personal as national. As a rule individuals were not subject to individuals, but the whole Hebrew people were subject to the Egyptian, Babylonian and the Persian states. They were forced to labor on public works, and otherwise, and were denied their own freedom when the exigencies of state seemed to demand it. The former word `abhodhah is also used in Ne 5:18 as descriptive of the subject and depressed conditions of the Hebrews in Palestine during the earlier years after their return from captivity, when they were still living under Persian suzerainty.
(b) The word bondage (`abhadhim) is also used to describe the slavery into which the poor Jews were being forced by their more prosperous brethren in the earlier years under the Persians in Palestine (Ne 5:5). Here true personal, though temporary, slavery is meant.
(c) Marriage is once referred to as a bondage (1Co 7:15) (verb douloo).
(2) It is used in the metaphorical sense only in New Testament. he douleia, "bondage," is the power of physical corruption as against the freedom of life (Ro 8:21), the power of fear as over against the confidence of Christian faith (Ro 8:15; Heb 2:15), and especially is it the bondage of the letter, of the elements, of a ceremonial and institutional salvation which must be scrupulously and painfully observed, as contrasted with the freedom of the sons of God, emancipated by faith in Jesus Christ. This bondage is a peculiarly Pauline idea since he was fighting for Christian freedom (Ga 2:4; 4:3,9,24,25; 5:1). In 2Pe 2:19 the idea is essentially different. Libertinism, masquerading under the name of freedom, is branded as bondage, in contrast with the true freedom of righteous living.
See SLAVERY.
William Joseph McGlothlin
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.