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Thick clay
(Hab. 2:6) is correctly rendered in the Revised Version “pledges.” The Chaldean power is here represented as a rapacious usurer, accumulating the wealth that belonged to others.
In the Bible
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Verses where Thick clay is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
Scripture on Thick clay
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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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