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2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

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Exodus 22:3
If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Leviticus 25:41
Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

Jeremiah 34:14
At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you. But your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

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Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Psalms 109:11
Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

Isaiah 24:2
It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

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Ruth 1:3
Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons.

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1 Samuel 10:12
One from the same place answered, “Who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Amos 7:14
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;

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1 Kings 18:3
Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;

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1 Kings 17:12
She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

2 Kings 4:4
Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

2 Kings 6:3
One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” He answered, “I will go.”

Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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