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• For my people and I have been delivered to destruction, slaughter and extinction. Had we been sold merely as male and female slaves, I would have said nothing, for our calamity would not be as great a loss to the king." (Esther 7, 4)

• What he tears down, none can rebuild; the one he imprisons, none can release. (Job 12, 14)

• Will a man live again if he dies? All the days of my service I would wait for my release. (Job 14, 14)

• The merchants of the region heard of their arrival, so they went to the camp with large amounts of silver, gold and fetters, proposing to buy the Israelites as slaves. The Syrian army and those from the province of the Philistines also joined the troops. (1 Maccabees 3, 41)

• Since the Greeks treated the Israelites as slaves, Judas hoped to liberate them from oppression in this way. (1 Maccabees 8, 18)

• So Demetrius authorized Jonathan to organize an army and manufacture arms; he named him his ally and ordered the release of the hostages who were in the Citadel of Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 10, 6)

• So, send a hundred talents of silver and two of his sons as hostages lest he slip away when we release him, and come back against us. Then we shall let him go." (1 Maccabees 13, 16)

• Within only three days, there were eighty thousand victims - forty thousand perished in the slaughter and as many were sold as slaves. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)

• Nicanor intended to raise two thousand talents by the sale of Jewish slaves in order to pay for the tribute the king owed to the Romans. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)

• So he extended an invitation to all the coastal cities to come and buy slaves for a talent, without any regard for the punishment of the Almighty that might come upon him. (2 Maccabees 8, 11)

• Then do this, my son: release yourself. If you have fallen into the hands of your neighbor, go speedily, kneel down and plead with him; (Proverbs 6, 3)

• I bought slaves and servants and had slaves born in my household. I had flocks and herds in abundance more than anyone before me in Jerusalem. (Ecclesiastes 2, 7)