Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
One of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.”
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the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Don't be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans. If you have no money to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you.
he will suffer for it,
but the one who hates such agreements is protected.
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.
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