Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
General references
Bible References
Drive
Job 22:6 For you took collateral from your brothers without cause,
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
Job 31:16 If I have refused the wishes of the poor
or let the widow’s eyes go blind,
or let the widow’s
Deuteronomy 24:6
“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”
General references
Deuteronomy 24:12
If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security.
Proverbs 1:13 We’ll find all kinds of valuable property
and fill our houses with plunder.
and fill our houses with plunder.