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
Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
Deuteronomy 19:14
'Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed is he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
Job 24:2
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
Fatherless
Job 6:27
Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
Job 22:9
Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Job 24:3
The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,
Job 31:21
If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in him the gate of my court,
Psalm 94:6
Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
Jeremiah 7:5
For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.
Zechariah 7:10
And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.
Malachi 3:5
And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.
James 1:27
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
General references
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed is he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
Psalm 136:24
And He delivereth us from our adversaries, For to the age is His kindness.