Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Bible References

Lifted

Job 6:27
“You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.
Job 22:9
“You have sent widows away empty,
And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.
Job 24:9
Others snatch the orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
Proverbs 23:10
Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,
Jeremiah 5:28
‘They are fat, they are sleek,
They also excel in deeds of wickedness;
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper;
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

When

Micah 2:1
Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.
Micah 7:3
Concerning evil, both hands do it well.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.

General references

Exodus 23:6
You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.
Leviticus 23:22
When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the Lord your God.’”
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me He has turned His hand
Repeatedly all the day.
James 2:15
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,

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