Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Bible References
General references
Leviticus 19:9
‘Now when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Deuteronomy 16:11
and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is in your town, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
Deuteronomy 24:19
“When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Ruth 2:3
So she departed and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
Job 31:16 “If I have kept the poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes ofthe widow to fail,
Or have caused the eyes of
Psalm 41:1
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he whoconsiders the helpless;
The Lord will deliver himin a day of trouble.
How blessed is he who
The Lord will deliver him
Psalm 112:9 He has given freely to the poor,
His righteousness endures forever;
Hishorn will be exalted in honor.
His righteousness endures forever;
His
Proverbs 11:24 There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more,
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.
Isaiah 58:7 “Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry
Andbring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see thenaked, to cover him;
And not tohide yourself from your own flesh?
And
When you see the
And not to
Luke 11:41 But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you.
2 Corinthians 9:5
So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.