Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
Mortgaged
Because
General references
Bible References
Mortgaged
Genesis 47:15
And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, 'Give to us bread -- why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?'
Leviticus 25:35
'And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;
Deuteronomy 15:7
'When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;
Because
Malachi 3:8
Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: 'In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!
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Exodus 22:25
'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;
Amos 8:6
To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.