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Creditors

Defined—Phm 1:18

MIGHT DEMAND

• Pledges
• —De 24:10,11; Pr 22:27
• Security of others
• —Pr 6:1; 22:26
• Mortgages on property
• —Ne 5:3
• Bills or promissory notes
• —Lu 16:6,7

To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge—Ex 22:26,27; De 24:12,13; Eze 18:7,12

PROHIBITED FROM

• Taking millstones in pledge
• —De 24:6
• Violently selecting pledges
• —De 24:10
• Exacting usury from brethren
• —Ex 22:25; Le 25:36,37
• Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year
• —De 15:2,3

Might take interest from strangers—De 23:20

Sometimes entirely remitted debts—Ne 5:10-12; Mt 18:27; Lu 7:42

Often cruel in exacting debts—Ne 5:7-9; Job 24:3-9; Mt 18:28-30

OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS

• By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
• —Mt 18:25; Ex 21:2
• By selling the debtor's property
• —Mt 18:25
• By selling the debtor's family
• —2Ki 4:1; Job 24:9; Mt 18:25
• By imprisonment
• —Mt 5:25,26; 18:34
• From the sureties
• —Pr 11:15; 22:26,27

Were often defrauded—1Sa 22:2; Lu 16:5-7

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• God's claim upon men
• —Mt 5:25,26; 18:23,25; Lu 7:41,47
• The demands of the law
• —Ga 5:3