Deu 28:12, 43-44, 2Ki 4:1-5, Neh 5:1-5, Pro 22:7 | ESV | STEP | The Lord will open to you his good treasury , the heavens , to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands . And you shall lend to many nations , but you shall not borrow .

f[See ver. 43 above]

gSee ch. 2:3

h[Lev. 25:39-41; 1 Sam. 22:2; Neh. 5:5; Matt. 18:25]

i[Ex. 3:9; Isa. 5:7]

j Lev. 25:35, 37; Deut. 15:7

k Ezra 4:13, 20; 7:24

l Isa. 58:7; [Gen. 29:14]

m[Ex. 21:7; Lev. 25:39; 2 Kgs. 4:1]

n James 2:6

Deuteronomy 28:12

12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, ^ato give the rain to your land in its season and ^bto bless all the work of your hands. And ^cyou shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Deuteronomy 28:43-44

43 ^dThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 ^eHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^fHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

2 Kings 4:1-5

Elisha and the Widow’s Oil

1 Now the wife of one of the ^gsons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, ^hbut the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.” 2 And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” 3 Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few. 4 Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.” 5 So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor

1 Now there arose ⁱa great outcry of the people and of their wives ^jagainst their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for ^kthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now ^lour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet ^mwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Proverbs 22:7

7 ⁿThe rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.