Proverbs 23:10
Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],
Proverbs 22:28
Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
Which your fathers have set.
Deuteronomy 19:14
“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the forefathers [who first divided the territory] have set, in the land which you will inherit in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the Lord, “Execute justice and righteousness, and rescue the one who has been robbed from the hand of his oppressor. And do no wrong; do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
Zechariah 7:10
and do not oppress or exploit the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise or even imagine evil in your hearts against one another.’
Deuteronomy 27:17
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Job 6:27
“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless
And bargain away your friend.
Job 22:9
“You have sent widows away empty-handed,
And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:2-3
“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Job 24:9
“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].
Job 31:21-23
If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,
Psalm 94:6
And murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5
For if you thoroughly change your ways and your behavior, if you thoroughly and honestly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away the alien [from his right], and those who do not fear Me [with awe-filled reverence],” says the Lord of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Fatherless
General references
Bible References
Remove
Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
Which your fathers have set.
“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Fatherless
“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless
And bargain away your friend.
“You have sent widows away empty-handed,
And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.
“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,
And murder the fatherless.
General references
And has rescued us from our enemies,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;