CREDITORS

CREDITORS

1. Defined # Phm 1:18
2. MIGHT DEMAND 2a) Pledges

   # De 24:10,11 Pr 22:27

2b) Security of others # Pr 6:1 22:26 2c) Mortgages on property # Ne 5:3 2d) Bills or promissory notes # Lu 16:6,7 3) To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge # Ex 22:26,27 De 24:12,13 Eze 18:7,12 4) PROHIBITED FROM 4a) Taking millstones in pledge # De 24:6 4b) Violently selecting pledges # De 24:10 4c) Exacting usury from brethren # Ex 22:25 Le 25:36,37 4d) Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year # De 15:2,3 5) Might take interest from strangers # De 23:20 6) Sometimes entirely remitted debts # Ne 5:10-12 Mt 18:27 Lu 7:42 7) Often cruel in exacting debts # Ne 5:7-9 Job 24:3-9 Mt 18:28-30 8) OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS 8a) By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant # Mt 18:25 Ex 21:2 8b) By selling the debtor’s property # Mt 18:25 8c) By selling the debtor’s family # 2Ki 4:1 Job 24:9 Mt 18:25 8d) By imprisonment # Mt 5:25,26 18:34 8e) From the sureties # Pr 11:15 22:26,27 9) Were often defrauded # 1Sa 22:2 Lu 16:5-7 10) ILLUSTRATIVE OF 10a) God’s claim upon men  # Mt 5:25,26 18:23,25 Lu 7:41,47 10b) The demands of the law # Ga 5:3