Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, 'Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'
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They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
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and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties for burdens. If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
Evil one suffereth when he hath been surety for a stranger, And whoso is hating suretyship is confident.
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
'Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,
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'And having been wroth, his lord delivered him to the inquisitors, till he might pay all that was owing to him;
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.
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When thou buyest a Hebrew servant -- six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;
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Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's property
and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.
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