Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Do not be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. If you do not have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due.
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
But because he could not pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.