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RANSOM

(See REDEMPTION)

for a human life:

proper use of ransom

♦ restitution for loss of life

• Exodus 21:28-30

♦ requirement for Israelites

• Exodus 30:12

♦ requirement for the first-born

• Numbers 3:46

♦ means of deliverance

• Job 33:24

improper use of ransom

♦ for redemption of anything or anyone devoted to the Lord

• Leviticus 27:28-29

♦ for a murderer

• Numbers 35:31

♦ for a fugitive in a city of refuge

• Numbers 35:32

for redemption of a soul:

♦ inability of man to provide such a ransom:

• Psalms 49:7-8

♦ 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)

• Matthew 20:28; 1 Timothy 2:6

for the nation Israel:

♦ Egypt as God's ransom for Israel:

• Isaiah 43:3

♦ 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:

• Jeremiah 31:11

♦ God's ransom of Israel out of Egypt:

• Micah 6:4

various other uses:

♦ ransom money from Israelites given to Aaron and his sons:

• Numbers 3:48-51

♦ a person influenced by the greatness of a ransom:

• Job 36:18

♦ affirmation of personal ransom by the Lord:

• Psalms 31:5

♦ the inability of a ransom to alleviate jealousy:

• Proverbs 6:34-35

♦ riches as the ransom of a man's life:

• Proverbs 13:8

♦ the wicked as a ransom for the righteous:

• Proverbs 21:18

This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.

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