Quotes About Release

And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

And if you report our mission, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judahís King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.

I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.

Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.

For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”

His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.

Now it was the governorís custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.