Ezekiel 18:13
engages <05414> [given.]
live <02425> [shall he.]
responsibility <01818> [blood. Heb. bloods.]
Ezekiel 18:17
<07725> [hath taken.]
engage <03947> [that hath not.]
die <04191> [he shall not.]
surely live <02421> [he shall surely.]
Ezekiel 22:12
take bribes ............ charge <07810 03947> [taken gifts.]
take ............. charge .... extort <03947 01214> [thou hast.]
extort <01214> [greedily.]
forgotten <07911> [and hast.]
Exodus 22:25
Leviticus 25:35-37
brother <0251> [thy brother.]
indebted to you <04131> [fallen in decay. Heb. his hand faileth. then.]
support <02388> [relieve. Heb. strengthen. a stranger.]
interest <05392> [usury.]
fear <03372> [fear.]
Deuteronomy 23:19-20
lend ..... a foreigner <05237> [a stranger.]
Lord <03068> [that the.]
Nehemiah 5:1-11
great outcry <06818 01419> [a great cry.]
fellow <0251> [their brethren.]
sons <01121> [We, our sons.]
must obtain grain <01715 03947> [we take up corn.]
putting up .......... collateral <06148> [mortgaged.]
famine <07458> [because.]
taxes .... king <04060 04428> [the king's tribute.]
flesh ... blood <01320> [our flesh.]
found ... necessary to subject .............. subjected to slavery <03533> [we.]
considered .... carefully <03820 04427> [I consulted with myself. Heb. my heart consulted in me.]
registered a complaint <07378> [I rebuked.]
seizing the collateral <04855 05378> [Ye exact usury.]
called .... great ... assembly <01419 06952 05414> [I set a great assembly.]
<01767> [We after.]
bought <07069> [redeemed.]
fellow ...... sold ........... sell .... countrymen <04376 0251> [sell your.]
sold ........... sell <04376> [shall they.]
silent <02790> [held.]
<02896> [It is not.]
<03212> [walk.]
reproach <02781> [reproach.]
relatives <0251> [I likewise.]
But .... abandon <05800> [I pray you.]
But .... abandon <05800> [leave.]
return <07725> [Restore.]
fields <07704> [their lands.]
interest <03967> [the hundredth.]
This was probably the rate of interest which they obliged their poor debtors to pay each month, which would amount to about 12 per cent. Another author states that this is the lowest rate of interest in Syria: the usual rate is 20; and it is sometimes as high as 30 per cent.
Psalms 15:5
charge <05414> [putteth.]
take <03947> [nor taketh.]
lives <06213> [He that doeth.]
Proverbs 28:8
interest <05392> [that by.]
increasing <08636> [unjust gain. Heb. by increase.]
gracious <02603> [pity.]
Jeremiah 15:10
mother <0517> [my.]
<0376> [a man.]
lent money ........ borrowed <05383> [I have.]
treating me with contempt <07043> [curse.]
