Thematic Bible: The credit system


Thematic Bible






"When a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it's injured or dies while its owner was not with it, he is certainly to make restitution. Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtLendingRepaying DebtDuties To NeighboursBorrowingLosing Someone

He told her, "Go out to all of your neighbors in the surrounding streets and borrow lots of pots from them. Don't get just a few empty vessels, either. Verse ConceptsBorrowing, Examples OfDebtpotdrums

It happened that as one of them was felling a beam, his axe head fell into the water. He cried out, "Oh no! Master! The axe was on loan to me!" Verse ConceptsAxesLendingLossThings Falling


Instead, be sure to open your hand to him and lend him enough to lessen his need. Verse ConceptsNeedCreditorsInterestSaints, Care For The PoorAlmsgivingAltruismCharity

Every day he is generous, lending freely, and his descendants are blessed. Verse ConceptsCharacter Of SaintsBlessing Through God's People



"Don't take a pair of millstones, especially the upper millstone, as collateral for a loan, because this means taking a man's livelihood. Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the ox of the widow as security for a loan; Verse ConceptsOxenCreditAbhorGuaranteeOppression, Nature OfOrphansWidowsCreditorsOwning LivestockNot Helping Widows

Now there happened to be a certain woman who had been the wife of a member of the Guild of Prophets. She cried out to Elisha, "My husband who served you has died, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. But a creditor has come to take away my children into indentured servitude!" Verse ConceptsCreditLonelinessPoverty, Causes OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsRiches, Believers AttitudesSchool Of ProphetsServanthood, In SocietySlavery, In OtSuffering, HardshipOppression, Examples OfCreditorsFear Of God, Examples OfDebtorsWidowsSons Of The ProphetsTwo SonsActual WidowsslaveryGodly WomanDebtSchoolBeing A Woman Of GodLeaving Parents For Spouse

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.