Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
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The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
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And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts: If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.
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And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
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If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
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