Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying, "Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants."
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The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
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Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts. If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
The one who puts up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands will be secure.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Reach agreement quickly with your accuser while on the way to court, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the warden, and you will be thrown into prison.
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And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.
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"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.
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