Torrey's Topical Index
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
Bad-Exemplified
- Servants of Abraham and Lot
- —Ge 13:7
- Servants of Abimelech
- —Ge 21:25
- Absalom's servants [Absalom's servants obeyed a bad master;
- they were bad men rather than bad servants]—2Sa 13:28,29; 14:30
- Ziba
- —2Sa 16:1-4
- Servants of Shimei
- —1Ki 2:39
- Jeroboam
- —1Ki 11:26
- Zimri
- —1Ki 16:9
- Gehazi
- —2Ki 5:20
- Servants of Amon
- —2Ki 21:23
- Job's servants
- —Job 19:16
- Servants of the High Priest
- —Mr 14:65
- Onesimus before his conversion
- —Phm 1:11