Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Fatherless
General references
Bible References
Remove
Proverbs 22:28
Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to enjoy it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
"'Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Job 24:2
For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own;
Fatherless
Job 6:27
Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend.
Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.
Job 24:3
that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
Job 31:21
Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?
Psalm 94:6
They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.
Jeremiah 7:5
"For if ye will amend your ways and counsels, if ye will judge right betwixt a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
Zechariah 7:10
Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."
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.
General references
Deuteronomy 27:17
"'Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Psalm 136:24
And hath delivered us from our enemies! For his mercy endureth forever.