Exodus 22:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

Exodus 22:26 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Amos 2:8
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:10-13
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. …
Proverbs 22:27
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

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Commentary

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

(vv. 25-31)

Here is, I. A law against extortion in lending. 1. They must not receive use for money from any that borrowed for necessity (Exod. 22:25), as in that case, Neh. 5:5, 7. And such provision the law made for the preservation of estates to their families by the year of jubilee that a people who had little concern in trade could not be supposed to borrow money but for necessity, and therefore it is gen…

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

(vv. 26)

26-27. If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, &c.--From the nature of the case, this is the description of a poor man. No Orientals undress, but, merely throwing off their turbans and some of their heavy outer garments, they sleep in the clothes which they wear during the day. The bed of the poor is usually nothing else than a mat; and, in winter, they cover themselves with a cloak…