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
he executes the rights of the fatherless and the widow and also loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
Psalm 10:14
Thou hast seen it, for thou dost behold mischief and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless and a defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 82:3
Do right concerning the poor and fatherless; do justice to the poor and destitute.
Psalm 146:9
The LORD preserves the strangers; he raises up the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Proverbs 23:10
Do not remove the old landmark, and do not enter into the inheritance of the fatherless:
Hosea 14:3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods, for in thee the fatherless finds mercy.
Jonah 4:11
And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and many animals?
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near unto you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.
James 1:27
The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep thyself unspotted from this world.
Let thy
1 Timothy 5:5
Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusts in God, and is diligent 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.