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.