Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Let thy

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Thy fatherless

Deuteronomy 10:18
He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment
Psalm 10:14
Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan.
Psalm 68:5
A father of orphans and a judge of widows, God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 82:3
Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one
Psalm 146:9
Jehovah watched the strangers he will restore the orphan and the widow, and he will overturn the way of the unjust
Proverbs 23:10
Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:
Hosea 14:3
Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.
Jonah 4:11
And shall I not spare for Nineveh the great city which there is in it more than one hundred and twenty thousand men which knew not between his right hand to his left, and many cattle?
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.
James 1:27
Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

Let thy

1 Timothy 5:5
And she truly a widow, and forsaken, has hoped in God, and remains in supplications and prayers night and day.

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Numbers 27:7
The daughters of Zelophehad spake rightly: giving, thou shalt give to them the possession of an inheritance in the midst of the brethren of their father, and cause the inheritance of their father to pass over to them.