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, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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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 he take away thy bed from under thee?
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Agree 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, till 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 forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: 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 forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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