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.
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They judge
General references
Bible References
Companions
Proverbs 29:24
Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose.
Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Mark 11:17
And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Luke 19:46
saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!"
Every
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
Exodus 23:8
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not subvert justice; you shall not {show partiality}; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind [the] eyes of [the] wise and misrepresents [the] words of [the] righteous.
Proverbs 17:23
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Jeremiah 22:17
"But there is nothing [in] your eyes and your heart {except} your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion."
Ezekiel 22:12
They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
Hosea 4:18
When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory.
Micah 7:3
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.
They judge
Isaiah 10:1
Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm,
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, {their evil deeds have no limit}. They do not judge [with] justice, [the] legal cause of [the] orphan, or allow it to succeed, and [the] legal case of [the] poor, they do not defend.
Zechariah 7:10
You must not oppress [the] widow, [the] orphan, [the] foreigner, and [the] needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'
Malachi 3:5
"Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear {falsely}, and against the oppressors of [the] hired worker [with his] wages, [the] widow and [the] orphan, and {the abusers of} [the] alien, and [yet] do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts.
Luke 18:2
saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people.
General references
Exodus 22:22
" 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan.
Deuteronomy 25:1
"When a legal dispute {takes place} between men and they come near to the court, and [the judges] judge [with respect to] them, then they shall declare the righteous [to be] in the right and they shall condemn the wicked,
Proverbs 17:23
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend [the] poor and needy.