Torrey's Topical Index
Servants
Servants
Early mention of - Ge 9:25,26
DIVIDED INTO
Persons 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 5:4
SLAVES 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 34:8-16
BOND, ILLUSTRATIVE
Christ 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 2:10
Should 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 6:7
When 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 3:24
The property of masters increased by faithful - Ge 30:29,30
CHARACTERISTICS OF WICKED SERVANTS
Good-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 1:11
Bad-Exemplified
