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
but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.
Psalm 10:14
Surely thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong, that thou mayest take the matter into thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless.
Psalm 68:5
He is a father of the fatherless, he is a defender of widows; even God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 82:3
Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.
Psalm 146:9
The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria shall not save us, neither will we ride on horses: neither will we say to the works of our own hands, 'Ye are our Gods,' for thou hast compassion on the friendless.
Jonah 4:11
And should not I have compassion on Nineveh that great city, wherein there is a multitude of people, even above a hundred thousand that know not their righthand from the left, besides much cattle?"
Malachi 3:5
I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
James 1:27
Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.
Let thy
1 Timothy 5:5
She that is a very widow, and friendless, putteth her trust in God, and continueth in supplication and prayer night and day:
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Numbers 27:7
"The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt give them a possession to inherit among their father's brethren, and shalt turn the inheritance of their father unto them.