Ezekiel 33:15
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
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Exodus 21:34The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
Exodus 22:26If you at all take your neighbour's raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by that the sun goes down:
Leviticus 18:5All of you shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man's life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a 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 →