Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Bible References

Companions

Proverbs 29:24
He dividing with a thief, hates his soul: he shall hear cursing and shall not announce.
Matthew 21:13
And he says to them, It was written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; and ye have made it a den of robbers.
Mark 11:17
And he taught, saying to them, Has it not been written, That my house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations and ye made it a den of robbers.
Luke 19:46
Saying to them, It has been written, My house is the house of prayer: and ye have made it a den of robbers.

Every

Isaiah 33:15
He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;
Exodus 23:8
And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just.
Proverbs 17:23
The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment
Jeremiah 22:17
For thine eyes and thy heart not but for thy plunder and for guiltless blood to pour out, and for oppression and for running, to do.
Ezekiel 22:12
They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.
Hosea 4:18
Their drinking bout departed: committing fornication, they committed fornication: they loved, give ye shame upon her shields.
Micah 7:3
For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

They judge

Isaiah 10:1
Wo to those decreeing not decrees, and they wrote writings of labor;
Jeremiah 5:28
They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.
Zechariah 7:10
And the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the poor, ye shall not oppress; and ye shall not purpose evil in your heart a man to his brother.
Malachi 3:5
And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.
Luke 18:2
Saying, There was a certain judge in a certain city, fearing not God, and not occupied about man:

General references

Exodus 22:22
Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there shall be a controversy between men and they drew near to judgment, and they judged them; and they justified the just and condemned the unjust.
Proverbs 17:23
The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment
Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth; judge justly, and contend for the poor and needy.