From Nave’s Topical Bible
Interest
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 14Passages listed
- 8Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (Income from loaning money, usually called "usury" in the Scriptures, but not generally signifying unlawful or unjust rates)Exodus 22:25Leviticus 25:36Leviticus 25:37Deuteronomy 23:19Deuteronomy 23:20Nehemiah 5:1–13Psalms 15:5Proverbs 28:8Isaiah 24:2Ezekiel 18:8Ezekiel 18:9Ezekiel 18:13Ezekiel 18:17Ezekiel 22:12
- See Borrowing
- See Debt
- See Debtors
- See Lending
- See Money
The passages, in Bible order (14)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 14 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
Commentary on Exodus 22:252 voices
There is a great deal about sharing and exchanging, but it is enough to say that the law forbids lending at interest to a brother. By brother it means not merely one born of the same parents but a member of the same tribe or one of the same faith, who shares in the same Logos. The law does not deem it right to collect interest on the capital. It seeks to enable free giving to those in need, with hands and minds wide open. God is the creator of this free gift.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 2Patristic
And such provision the law made for the preserving 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; therefore it was generally forbidden among themselves; but to a stranger they were allowed to lend upon usury.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Leviticus 25:36
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
Commentary on Leviticus 25:362 voices
Take thou no usury of him - Usury, at present, signifies unlawful interest for money. Properly, it means the reward or compensation given for the use of a thing, but is principally spoken of money. For the definition of the original term, See the note on Exo 22:25.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
And thus far this law binds still, but could never be thought binding where money is borrowed for purchase of lands, trade, or other improvements; for there it is reasonable that the lender share with the borrower in the profit. The law here is plainly intended for the relief of the poor, to whom it is sometimes as great a charity to lend freely as to give.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Leviticus 25:37
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
Commentary on Leviticus 25:371 voice
And thus far this law binds still, but could never be thought binding where money is borrowed for purchase of lands, trade, or other improvements; for there it is reasonable that the lender share with the borrower in the profit. The law here is plainly intended for the relief of the poor, to whom it is sometimes as great a charity to lend freely as to give.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Deuteronomy 23:19
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:192 voices
This among them would be little or no loss to the lender, because their land was so divided, their estates so settled, and there was so little a merchandise among them, that it was seldom or never they had occasion to borrow any great sums, but only for the subsistence of their family, or some uncommon emergence.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
[Scripture] orders money to be returned without usury. It is a mark of kindly feeling to help one who has nothing. It is a sign of a hard nature to extort more than one has given. If one has need of your assistance because he has not enough of his own wherewith to repay a debt, is it not a wicked thing to demand under the guise of kindly feeling a larger sum from him who has not the means to pay off a lesser amount?
Ambrose of Milan· On the Duties of the Clergy 3.3.20Patristic
- Deuteronomy 23:20
You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:201 voice
By this it appears that usury is not in itself oppressive; for they must not oppress a stranger, and yet might exact usury from him. The performance of the vows wherewith we have bound our souls is here required; and it is a branch of the law of nature,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Nehemiah 5:1–13
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
Commentary on Nehemiah 5:1–131 voice
The condition of the poorer inhabitants was indeed deplorable; for, besides the deficient harvests caused by the great rains (Ezr 10:9; also Hag 1:6-11), a dearth was now threatened by the enemy keeping such a multitude pent up in the city, and preventing the country people bringing in provisions.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
- Psalms 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
Commentary on Psalms 15:52 voices
"He that putteth not out his money to usury." Usury was and is hateful both to God and man. That a lender should share with the borrower in gains made by his money is most fitting and proper; but that the man of property should eat up the poor wretch who unfortunately obtained a loan of him is abominable. Those who grind poor tradesmen, needy widows, and such like, by charging them interest at intolerable rates, will find that their gold, and their silver are cankered.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 1, 1869
To usury - In such a manner as is contrary to God's law: of which see otherwise, Exod. xxii, 25 Levit xxv, 36, 37, &c. Reward - Or, a bribe for him who hath a bad cause.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Commentary on Proverbs 28:81 voice
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance,.... By biting and oppressing the poor; letting him have money at an exorbitant interest, and goods at an exorbitant price, and so increases his substance in this scandalous manner; hence usury is in Lev 25:36, called "increase", and by the Greeks τοκος, a "birth", because money is the birth of money, as Aristotle (e) observes; and so by the Latins "foenus", as if it was "foetus" (f), "a birth".
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 24:2
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
Commentary on Isaiah 24:22 voices
Nor indeed is there any distinction between the state of the people and that of the priesthood: but it seems to me to be a simple fulfillment of the ancient curse, "As with the people, so with the priest." Nor again are the great and eminent men affected otherwise than the majority; no, they are openly at war with the priest, and the piety of the people is an aid to their powers of persuasion.
Gregory of Nazianzus· IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT, ORATION 2:82Patristic
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest,.... Or, "prince" (p); no order or rank of men will fare better than another; their dignity, in things civil or ecclesiastical, will not secure them from ruin; it will be no better with princes and priests than the common people; they shall all alike share in the common destruction.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Ezekiel 18:8
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
Commentary on Ezekiel 18:81 voice
10. Hath not given forth upon usury - בנשך לא יתן beneshech lo yitten. נשך nasach signifies to bite; usury is properly so termed, because it bites into and devours the principal. Usury signifies, with us, exacting unlawful interest for money; and taking the advantage of a man’s necessities to advance him cash on exorbitant profit. This bites the receiver in his property, and the lender in his salvation.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Ezekiel 18:9
He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
Commentary on Ezekiel 18:92 voices
Live ... die - In the writings of Ezekiel there is a development of the meaning of “life” and “death.” In the holy land the sanctions of divine government were in great degree temporal; so that the promise of “life” for “obedience,” the threatening of “death” for “disobedience,” in the Books of Moses, were regarded simply as temporal and national. In their exile this could not continue in its full extent, and the universality of the misfortune necessarily made men look deeper into the words of God.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
(1.) From sins against the second commandment. In the matters of God's worship he is jealous, for he knows God is so. He has not only not sacrificed in the high places to the images there set up, but he has not so much as eaten upon the mountains, that is, not had any communion with idolaters by eating things sacrificed to idols, 1 Cor. x.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Ezekiel 18:13
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
Commentary on Ezekiel 18:132 voices
'Tis plural, bloods; both the blood of the innocent which he murdered, and his own blood which thereby he forfeited; the blood of his own soul and life: that is the whole blame of his misery in time and eternity, shall lie upon himself.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
His pious parentage, so far from excusing, aggravates his guilt. robber--or literally, "a breaker," namely, through all constraints of right. doeth the like to any one--The Hebrew and the parallel (Eze 18:18) require us to translate rather, "doeth to his brother any of these things," namely, the things which follow in Eze 18:11, &c. [MAURER].
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
- Ezekiel 18:17
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
Commentary on Ezekiel 18:172 voices
Hezekiah, of Ahaz (2Ki 16:1-20; 21:1-22:20). seeth . . . and considereth--The same Hebrew stands for both verbs, "seeth . . . yea, seeth." The repetition implies the attentive observation needed, in order that the son may not be led astray by his father's bad example; as sons generally are blind to parents sins, and even imitate them as if they were virtues.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
He shall not die for the iniquity of his father - He shall no more be affected by his father’s crimes, than his father was benefited by his grandfather’s righteousness.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Ezekiel 22:12
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
Commentary on Ezekiel 22:121 voice
Those that pervert their ways forget the Lord their God, Jer. iii. He is to pass sentence upon Jerusalem for these crimes. Let her know that she has filled up the measure of her iniquity, and that her sins are such as forbid delays and call for speedy vengeance.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan