14:14 ..."And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants ...and pursued them ...."
16:1 ..."Now, Sarai, Abram's wife bear him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian whose name was Hagar."
21:3 ..."And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare him, Isaac."
25: 21-23 ..."And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren ...and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her; ...And the LORD said unto her, ;Two nations are in your womb, and tow manner of people ...and the one people shall be stronger ...and the elder shall serve the younger."
29:18 ..."And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, 'I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.'"
29:26-27 ..."And Laban said, 'It must not be done in our country to give the younger before the first born ...you shall serve with me yet another seven years.'"
32:27 ..."Your name shall be called no more Jacob (supplanter), but Israel (striven with God): ..."
(And Joseph was one of Israel's sons ...and his brothers allowed their bitter feelings of dislike for their brother to grow ...to the unforgivable point of wanting to get rid of him. They cast him into a pit. A caravan came by with camels loaded with spicery, balm, and myrrh. Judah said, "Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites." Also in the company were merchants, and Joseph's brothers lifted him out of the pit and sold him. Joseph was brought to Egypt where an officer of Pharaoh bought him. Joseph served his master well, and he was made overseer of the house. Of course it was not always thought that Joseph did well ...as his master's wife made certain it, by causing trouble with lies to her husband. Joseph ended up in prison where God gave him dreams that he shared with the interpretation of. When Pharaoh had a disturbing dream ...it was Joseph that interpreted it ...and he was taken out of prison and given charge over all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh ...which lead us to the events of the Book of Exodus, under the rule of a new Pharaoh.)
Exodus 1:14 ..."and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all matter of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve was with rigor."
1:22 ..."And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, 'Every son that is born (of the Hebrews) you shall cast into the river."
2:1 ...Moses " ...looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew ..."
3:7-8 ..."And the LORD said, 'I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters: for I know their sorrow. And I am come to deliver them ..."
I wasn't going to mention this here, but now I considered it and thought it perhaps too relevant to ignore:
Whether you consider it wars between kingdoms or tribal wars, the conquered and their possessions were most often taken. The defeated people were not usually put in prisons, but placed into servitude. And since the victorious people felt they now 'owned' what they had gained by means of their conquests, when other countries came to trade their riches ...well, they traded what they felt they owned. And this included the people they had conquered, and they traded them as ...slaves.
It is all wrong!! Yet, so are governments hijacking their own people and making them slaves to communism. Many communist dictators have done this ...enslaving the people into their own military state. It is difficult for reporters to follow the military, so we don't know what happens to those who may be a bit slack in their duties. Other people are forced into factories, or farms. In Russia, at the time of Stalin, many of the best farmers were targeted and killed. But, they were not the slack or lazy farmers ...they were the best farmers. We may ask why they would target the best farmers? Well, the best farmer gave the government what they demanded ...but had a surplus for themselves and others in need. But, the government wanted a depressed people to grovel and be only at their 'beck and call'. It was not just the ambition of the good farmers ...as what threat would a people with pitchforks be to a strong military? The biggest threat was that they were independent thinkers ...it was their ideology that was a threat to the oppressive rulers. That's the reason that many communist nations don't want the Word of God to be shared.
Yet, there are others that feel a religious people are passive and peaceful. The oppressive rulers during the Roman Empire felt they had everything in hand ...and it was the welding religious leaders of the day that felt most threatened by Jesus.
Let us not forget that this ugly and ungodly concept of ownership also is promoted by the horrors of abortion.
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