Quotes About Freedom

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?

So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

After three years, however, two of Shimeiís slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And Shimei was told, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

So Shimei saddled his donkey and set out to Achish at Gath in search of his slaves, and he brought them back from Gath.

But Pharaoh asked him, “What have you lacked here with me that you suddenly want to go back to your own country?” “Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but please let me go.”

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your fatherís service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

As the sun was setting, the cry rang out in the army: “Every man to his own city, and every man to his own land!”

So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.

For the LORD saw that the affliction of the Israelites, both slave and free, was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel,

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.

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the kingís table for the rest of his life.

“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your fatherís service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

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