Thematic Bible: Often exacted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor's family
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
And against the poor they take a pledge.
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Do not be among those who give pledges, Among those who become guarantors for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take your bed from under you?
But he who hates
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By imprisonment
Creditors » Often exacted debts » By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.