RANSOM
(See REDEMPTION)
for a human life:
proper use of ransom
♦ restitution for loss of life
♦ requirement for Israelites
♦ requirement for the first-born
♦ means of deliverance
improper use of ransom
♦ for redemption of anything or anyone devoted to the Lord
♦ for a murderer
♦ for a fugitive in a city of refuge
for redemption of a soul:
♦ inability of man to provide such a ransom:
♦ request for God to provide the ransom:
• Psalms 69:18 (cf. Job 33:24)
♦ Christ's life given as a ransom:
(See also CHRIST, sufferings and substitutionary death of; CRUCIFIXION)
for the nation Israel:
♦ Egypt as God's ransom for Israel:
♦ God's ability to ransom Israel:
• Isaiah 50:1-2 (cf. Hosea 13:14)
♦ the joy of ransomed Israel in the future kingdom:
• Isaiah 35:10 (cf. Jeremiah 31:11-12)
♦ the promise of God's ransom of Israel:
♦ God's ransom of Israel out of Egypt:
various other uses:
♦ ransom money from Israelites given to Aaron and his sons:
♦ a person influenced by the greatness of a ransom:
♦ affirmation of personal ransom by the Lord:
♦ the inability of a ransom to alleviate jealousy:
♦ riches as the ransom of a man's life:
♦ the wicked as a ransom for the righteous:
This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.