Reference: Debt
Easton
The Mosaic law encouraged the practice of lending (De 15:7; Ps 37:26; Mt 5:42); but it forbade the exaction of interest except from foreigners. Usury was strongly condemned (Pr 28:8; Eze 18:8,13,17; 22:12; Ps 15:5). On the Sabbatical year all pecuniary obligations were cancelled (De 15:1-11). These regulations prevented the accumulation of debt.
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At the end of every seven years thou shall make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it from his neighbor and his brother, because LORD's release has been proclaimed. read more. From a foreigner thou may exact it, but whatever of thine is with thy brother, thy hand shall release. However there shall be no poor with thee (for LORD will surely bless thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it), if only thou diligently hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day. For LORD thy God will bless thee as he promised thee, and thou shall lend to many nations, but thou shall not borrow, and thou shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee. If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,
If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother, but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants. read more. Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to LORD against thee, and it be Thou shall surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou give to him, because for this thing LORD thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou put thy hand to. For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall surely open thy hand to thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.
he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
All the day long he deals graciously, and lends, and his seed is blessed.
He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
he who has not given forth upon interest, nor has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed TRUE justice between man and man,
has given forth upon interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.
who has withdrawn his hand from a poor man, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes, he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.
In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.
Give to him who asks thee, and turn thou not away from him who wants to borrow from thee.
Hastings
DEBT
1. In OT.
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If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
And six years thou shall sow thy land, and shall gather in the increase of it,
Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
Thou shall not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent upon interest.
When thou do lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
LORD will open to thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand. And thou shall lend to many nations, and thou shall not borrow.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and thou shall be the tail.
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what have thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid has not anything in the house except a pot of oil. read more. Then he said, Go, borrow for thee vessels abroad from all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And thou shall go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels, and thou shall set aside that which is full. So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons. They brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said to her, There is no more a vessel. And the oil halted. Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons from the rest.
And if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day. And that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
The wicked man borrows, and pays not again, but the righteous man deals graciously, and gives.
The wicked man borrows, and pays not again, but the righteous man deals graciously, and gives.
He who has pity upon a poor man lends to LORD, and he will repay him his good deed.
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the creditor, so with the debtor, as with the
Thus says LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your moth
Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, [yet] every one of them curses me.
And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.
Because of this the kingdom of the heavens is compared to a man, a king, who wanted to settle account with his bondmen.
Because of this the kingdom of the heavens is compared to a man, a king, who wanted to settle account with his bondmen.
Thou ought therefore to have placed my silver with the bankers, and having come I would have received back my own with interest.
And if ye lend to whom ye hope to receive, what credit is for you? For even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.
There were two debtors to a certain creditor, the one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
And having summoned each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much do thou owe to my lord?
Then why did thou not give my silver into a bank, and having come I would have collected it with interest?
having erased the handwriting against us in the regulations that were hostile to us, and he has taken it up from the midst, having nailed it to the cross.