Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Be not one of those who strike hands, of those who are sureties for debts. If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?


For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

Be not one of those who strike hands, of those who are sureties for debts. Verse ConceptsCreditBeing In DebtShaking HandsDebtResponsibility

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man's life to pledge. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

And they will stretch beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god. Verse ConceptsCreditGuaranteeDrinking WineAccused Of DrunkennessFine As PenaltyInterlopers In The Temple


If you lend money to one of My people who is poor beside you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest. If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as a pledge, you shall deliver it to him by the time the sun goes down. For that is his covering only, it is his clothing for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And it will be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

When you loan a loan of any kind to your brother, you shall not go into his house to bring forth his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you loan shall bring the pledge outside to you. And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge. read more.
You shall certainly give back to him the pledge at sundown, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.


Some also said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses. Let us buy grain because of the famine. And some said, We have borrowed money on our lands and vineyards for the king's tax.

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high; his refuge shall be the strongholds of rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.