Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried unto Elisha, saying, Thy slave, my husband, is dead; and thou knowest that thy slave feared the LORD; and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge of the poor.
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But he not having wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, to make payment.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Be not thou one of them that strike hands or of them that are sureties for debts. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should they take away thy bed from under thee?
With anxiety shall he that is surety for a stranger be afflicted, and he that hates suretiship shall live securely.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Conciliate with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
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And his lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due unto him.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
But he not having wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, to make payment.
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If thou should buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
But he not having wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, to make payment.
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