Deuteronomy 24:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Deuteronomy 24:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 22:6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Alms Bail Beggars Borrowing Creditor Debt Debtor

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-13)

Here is, I. Provision made for the preservation and confirmation of love between new-married people, Deut. 24:5. This fitly follows upon the laws concerning divorce, which would be prevented if their affection to each other were well settled at first. If the husband were much abroad from his wife the first year, his love to her would be in danger of cooling, and of being drawn aside to others whom…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

10-13. When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge--The course recommended was, in kind and considerate regard, to spare the borrower’s feelings. In the case of a poor man who had pledged his cloak, it was to be restored before night, as the poor in Eastern countries have commonly no other covering for wrapping themselves in when they go to sleep…