Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Thy fatherless
Let thy
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Bible References
Thy fatherless
Deuteronomy 10:18
who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.
Psalm 10:14
Thou hast seen it, for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 82:3
Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
Psalm 146:9
Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Hosea 14:3
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Thou art our God; because in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Jonah 4:11
and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Let thy
1 Timothy 5:5
Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
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Numbers 27:7
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.