Ezekiel 33:15
To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely liue, and not die.
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Exodus 21:34The owner of the pit shall make it good, and giue money to the owners thereof, but the dead beast shalbe his.
Exodus 22:26If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe:
Leviticus 18:5Ye shall keepe therefore my statutes, and my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall then liue in them: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the nether nor the vpper milstone to pledge: for this gage is his liuing.
Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not peruert the right of the stranger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a widowes rayment to pledge.
Job 24:3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 33:11-21
The Cavils of the People Answered. ( b. c. 587.) 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy… Read the whole commentary →