Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.
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"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.
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And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Do not be with those who {give a pledge} {by becoming} surety. If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you?
He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
{Settle the case quickly with your accuser} while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
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And [because he] was angry, his master handed him over to the merciless jailers until he would repay everything that was owed.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.
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'If you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years, and in the seventh he will go out as free for nothing.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.
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