Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.
Verse Concepts
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
Verse Concepts
But since he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Verse Concepts
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Be not one of them that gives pledges, or of them that become surety for debts. If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
He that is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it: and he that hates being surety is secure.
Verse Concepts
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
Verse Concepts
And his lord was angry, and delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Verse Concepts
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
But since he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Verse Concepts
If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Verse Concepts
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
But since he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Verse Concepts