Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

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Bible References

Rob

Proverbs 23:10
Do not remove the old landmark, and do not enter into the inheritance of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have done violence unto the poor and needy; they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Oppress

Proverbs 22:16
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not pervert the rights of thy poor in his cause.
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.
Job 31:16
If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Zechariah 7:10
and do not oppress the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
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.

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Exodus 21:26
And if someone smites the eye of their slave or the eye of their maid that it perishes, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.