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Servants
Early mention of - Ge 9:25,26
DIVIDED INTO
- Male
- Ge 24:34; 32:5- Female
- Ge 16:6; 32:5- Bond
- Ge 43:18; Le 25:46- Hired
- Mr 1:20; Lu 15:17Persons devoted to the service of another so called - Ps 119:49; Isa 56:6
The subjects of a prince or king so called - Ex 9:20; 11:8
Persons of low condition so called - Ec 10:7
Persons devoted to God so called - Ps 119:49; Isa 56:6; Ro 1:1
The term often used to express humility - Ge 18:3; 33:5; 1Sa 20:7; 1Ki 20:32
HIRED
- Called hireling
- Job 7:1; Joh 10:12,13- Engaged by the year
- Le 25:53; Isa 16:14- Engaged by the day
- Mt 20:2- Not to be oppressed
- De 24:14- To be paid without delay at the expiration of their service
- Le 19:13; De 24:15- To be esteemed worthy of their hire
- Lu 10:7- To partake of the produce of the land in the sabbatical
year - Le 25:6- If foreigners not allowed to partake of the passover or
holy things - Ex 12:45; Le 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
- Le 25:39,40- Hebrew slaves serving strangers to be treated as
- Le 25:47,53- Often stood in the market place waiting for employment
- Mt 20:1-3- Often will fed and taken care of
- Lu 15:17- Often oppressed and their wages kept back
- Mal 3:5; Jas 5:4SLAVES OR BOND
- Called bondmen
- Ge 43:18; 44:9- By birth
- Ge 14:14; Ps 116:16; Jer 2:14- By purchase
- Ge 17:27; 37:36- Captives taken in war often kept as
- De 20:14; 2Ki 5:2- Strangers sojourning in Israel might be purchased as
- Le 25:45- Persons belonging to other nations might be purchased as
- Le 25:44- Persons unable to pay their debts liable to be sold as
- 2Ki 4:1; Ne 5:4,5; Mt 18:25- Thieves unable to make restitution were sold as
- Ex 22:3- More valuable than hired servants
- De 15:18- When Israelites not to be treated with rigour
- Le 25:39,40,46- When Israelites to have their liberty after six years
service - Ex 21:2; De 15:12- Israelites sold as, refusing their liberty, to have their
ears bored to the door - Ex 21:5,6; De 15:16,17- Israelites sold to strangers as, might be redeemed by their
nearest of kin - Le 25:47-55- All Israelites sold as, to be free at the jubilee
- Le 25:10,40,41,54- Could not when set free demand wives or children procured
during servitude - Ex 21:3,4- To be furnished liberally, when their servitude expired
- De 15:13,14- When foreigners to be circumcised
- Ge 17:13,27; Ex 12:44- To be allowed to rest on the Sabbath
- Ex 20:10- To participate in all national rejoicings
- De 12:18; 16:11,14- Persons of distinction had many
- Ge 14:14; Ec 2:7- Engaged in the most menial offices
- 1Sa 25:41; Joh 13:4,5- Maimed of injured by masters to have their freedom
- Ex 21:26,27- Masters to be recompensed for injury done to
- Ex 21:32- Laws respecting the killing of
- Ex 21:20,21- Of others not to be coveted or enticed away
- Ex 20:17; De 5:21- Seeking protection not to be delivered up to masters
- De 23:15- Custom of branding, alluded to
- Ga 6:17- Sometimes rose to rank and station
- Ec 10:7- Sometimes intermarried with their master's family
- 1Ch 2:34,35- Laws respecting marriage with female
- Ex 21:7-11- Seizing and stealing of men for, condemned and punished by
the law - Ex 21:16; De 24:7; 1Ti 1:10- Laws respecting, often violated
- Jer 34:8-16BOND, ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of Christ
- Ps 40:6; Heb 10:5; Php 2:7,8- Of saints
- 1Co 6:20; 7:23- Of the wicked
- 2Pe 2:19; Ro 6:16,19Christ condescended to the office of - Mt 20:28; Lu 22:27; Joh 13:5; Php 2:7
Are inferior to their masters - Lu 22:27
Should follow Christ's example - 1Pe 2:21
DUTIES OF, TO MASTERS
- To pray for them
- Ge 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
- Ps 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
- Ge 24:33- To bless God for mercies shown to them
- Ge 24:27,48- To be faithful to them
- Lu 16:10-12; 1Co 4:2; Tit 2:10- To be profitable to them
- Lu 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
- Ge 24:54-56- To be prudent in the management of their affairs
- Ge 24:34-49- To be industrious in labouring for them
- Ne 4:16,23- To be kind and attentive to their guests
- Ge 43:23,24- To be submissive even to the froward
- Ge 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 2:10Should be contented in their situation - 1Co 7:20,21
Should be compassionate to their fellows - Mt 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 6:7When 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; Ga 3:28; Eph 6:8; Col 3:11- Deserve the confidence of their masters
- Ge 24:2,4,10; 39:4- Often exalted
- Ge 41:40; Pr 17:2- Often advanced by master
- Ge 39:4,5- To be honoured
- Ge 24:31; Pr 27:18- Bring God's blessing upon their masters
- Ge 30:27,30; 39:3- Adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all things
- Tit 2:10- Have God with them
- Ge 31:42; 39:21; Ac 7:9,10- Are prospered by God
- Ge 39:3- Are protected by God
- Ge 31:7- Are guided by God
- Ge 24:7,27- Are blessed by God
- Mt 24:46- Are mourned over after death
- Ge 35:8- Shall be rewarded
- Eph 6:8; Col 3:24The property of masters increased by faithful - Ge 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; Ps 101:6,7- Quarrelsomeness
- Ge 13:7; 26:20- Covetousness
- 2Ki 5:20- Lying
- 2Ki 5:22,24- Stealing
- Tit 2:10- Gluttony
- Mt 24:49- Unmerciful to their fellows
- Mt 18:30- Will not submit to correction
- Pr 29:19- Do not bear to be exalted
- Pr 30:21,22; Isa 3:5- Shall be punished
- Mt 24:50Good-Exemplified
- Eliezer
- Ge 24:1-67- Deborah
- Ge 24:59; 35:8- Jacob
- Ge 31:36-40- Joseph
- Ge 39:3; Ac 7:10- Servants of Boaz
- Ru 2:4- Jonathan's armour bearer
- 1Sa 14:6,7- David's servants
- 2Sa 12:18- Captive maid
- 2Ki 5:2-4- Servants of Naaman
- 2Ki 5:13- Servants of Centurion
- Mt 8:9- Servants of Cornelius
- Ac 10:7- Onesimus after his conversion
- Phm 1:11Bad-Exemplified
- Servants of Abraham and Lot
- Ge 13:7- Servants of Abimelech
- Ge 21:25- Absalom's servants [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master;
they were bad men rather than bad servants] - 2Sa 13:28,29; 14:30- Ziba
- 2Sa 16:1-4- Servants of Shimei
- 1Ki 2:39- Jeroboam
- 1Ki 11:26- Zimri
- 1Ki 16:9- Gehazi
- 2Ki 5:20- Servants of Amon
- 2Ki 21:23- Job's servants
- Job 19:16- Servants of the High Priest
- Mr 14:65- Onesimus before his conversion
- Phm 1:11 Next Topic (Sheep)