I guess "talks about Free Will" is not the correct phrase, it implies that there are passages that directly address the topic, where as it's simply something you pick up throughout the Bible when it talks about man's heart & choices and the fact that Adam & Eve were given a choice in the beginning, even though it doesn't exactly make sense and seems like a euphemism or allegory.
But there are def places where it talks about everything being pre-ordained which kind of makes free will a flashy illusion.
With the Bible, you can't escape the fact that everything was created by God, so he's already determining the universes rules & parameters, so "Free Will" is never going to be as free as people want it to be. It's not like people can will themselves into a being that can reproduce asexually, or something like that. Not only that but he says he must keep his word, so if he promises or makes a prophecy of something, it must come to pass, or else he's a liar, which makes him not the being he says he is.
Pro 16:9 A man’s heart plans his way, But YHWH establishes his steps.
The idea that everything, literally every choice you could make, is pre-ordained, already written in 'destiny', doesn't seem Biblical. But then again, if an Eternal God can see all the potential choices of all the individuals throughout history, and also calculate likelihood of each, he'd already know from the start how things are likely to turn out.
Bingo.
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