OT --love those free search engines ... only one relating to the pledge -- just says if you make an oath, do it -- all the rest has to do with -- collateral.
The disturbing thing here is -- psuhing someone else to pledge anything that they don't believe or intend to do.
I think the pledge was a bad idea in the first place -- nothing wrong with reciting things, but the pledge wasn't a good idea, IMO, from the start.
[Exod 22:23.9] If ever you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down
[Num 30:2.19] When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Num 30:5.22] But if her father expresses disapproval to her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father opposed her.
[Num 30:10.14] And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound herself by a pledge with an oath,
[Num 30:11] and her husband heard of it, and said nothing to her, and did not oppose her; then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.
[Deut 24:6.12] "No man shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge; for he would be taking a life in pledge.
[Deut 24:10] "When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
[Deut 24:11.17] You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.
[Deut 24:12] And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge;
[Deut 24:13] when the sun goes down, you shall restore to him the pledge that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
[Deut 24:17.21] "You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge; |
