Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
And there cried a certain woman of the wives of the children 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 fetch my two sons, to be his bondmen."
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They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,
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Whom, because he had nought to pay, his Master commanded him to be sold: and his wife, and his 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 bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt; for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee.
He that is surety for a stranger, hurteth himself; but he that meddleth not with suretyship, 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 that adversary deliver ye to the judge, and the judge deliver ye to the minister, and then thou be cast into prison.
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And his Lord was wroth, and delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all that was due to him.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
Whom, because he had nought to pay, his Master commanded him to be sold: and his wife, and his children, and all that he had; and payment to be made.
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If thou buy a servant that is an Hebrew, sixth years he shall serve, and the seventh he shall go out free paying nothing.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
Whom, because he had nought to pay, his Master commanded him to be sold: and his wife, and his children, and all that he had; and payment to be made.
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