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41 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 15:2ISBE · Nave LAWS CONCERNING
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
- 2 Kings 4:1ISBE · Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
- Exodus 21:2–6Nave LAWS CONCERNING
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given him a…
- Exodus 22:24ISBE
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Exodus 22:25ISBE
¶ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
- Exodus 22:25–27Nave LAWS CONCERNING
¶ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:…
- Leviticus 25:14–17Nave LAWS CONCERNING
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he…
- Leviticus 25:35–37Nave LAWS CONCERNING
¶ And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live…
- Deuteronomy 15:3Nave LAWS CONCERNING
Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
- Deuteronomy 23:19Nave LAWS CONCERNING
¶ Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
- Deuteronomy 23:20Nave LAWS CONCERNING
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 24:6Nave LAWS CONCERNING
¶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
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- Deuteronomy 24:10–13 Nave LAWS CONCERNING
- Deuteronomy 24:17 Nave LAWS CONCERNING
- Nehemiah 5:1 ISBE
- Nehemiah 5:1–13 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Job 20:18–20 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Job 22:6 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Job 24:3 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Job 24:9 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Psalms 109:11 ISBE
- Psalms 112:5 Nave MERCIFUL
- Proverbs 22:7 ISBE
- Proverbs 22:26 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Proverbs 22:27 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Proverbs 29:13 ISBE
- Isaiah 24:2 ISBE
- Isaiah 50:1 ISBE
- Jeremiah 34:8 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 29:1–11 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 29:28 ISBE
- Matthew 5:25 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Matthew 5:26 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Matthew 5:42 Nave LAWS CONCERNING
- Matthew 18:23–27 Nave MERCIFUL
- Matthew 18:28–35 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Luke 6:34 Nave LAWS CONCERNING
- Luke 7:41 ISBE
- Luke 7:41–43 Nave MERCIFUL
- Luke 12:58 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
- Luke 12:59 Nave OPPRESSIONS OF
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 19 references
kred'-i-ter:
(a) nosheh, participle of nashah: Ex 22:24 (English translation: 25); 2Ki 4:1; Isa 50:1; translated "extortioner," Ps 109:11; "taker of usury," Isa 24:2 the King James Version;
(b) malweh, participle of lawah, Isa 24:2 the Revised Version (British and American), the King James Version "lender";
(c) ba`al mashsheh yadho: "lord of the loan of his hand," De 15:2;
(d) danistes: Lu 7:41, "creditor" the King James Version, "lender" the Revised Version (British and American); compare further danistos, Sirach 29:28, "lender" the King James Version, "money-lender" the Revised Version (British and American):
In the ideal social system of the Old Testament, debts are incurred only because of poverty, and the law protected the poor debtor from his creditor, who in Ex 22:25 is forbidden to demand interest, and in De 15:2 to exact payment in view of the nearness of the year of release. 2Ki 4:1 shows that the actual practice was not so considerate, and in consequence the creditor fell into bad repute. In Ps 109:11 he is the extortioner; in Pr 29:13 the oppressor is evidently the creditor, though a different word is used; compare also Pr 22:7. In Sirach 29:28 the importunity of the creditor is one of the hardships of the poor man of understanding. The actual practice of the Jews may be gathered from Ne 5:1 ff; Jer 34:8 ff; and Sirach 29:1-11.
See also DEBT.
Walter R. Betteridge
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 29 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.