Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all who are unfortunate and defenseless;
Psalm 82:3-4
Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.
1 Samuel 19:4-7
Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “May the king not sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you.
1 Samuel 20:32
Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why must he be put to death? What has he done?”
1 Samuel 22:14-15
Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is as faithful and trustworthy as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and who is captain over your guard [and your confidant], and is honored in your house?
Esther 4:13-16
Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews.
Job 29:9
The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;
Job 29:12-17
Because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
Psalm 79:11
Let the groaning and sighing of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your power keep safe those who are doomed to die.
Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too exalted for a [hardened, arrogant]
He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city’s rulers sit in judgment].
Proverbs 24:11-12
Rescue those who are being taken away to death,
And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]!
Jeremiah 26:16-19
Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the [false] prophets, “This man is not deserving of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
Jeremiah 26:24
But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.
Jeremiah 38:7-10
Now Ebed-melech the Ethiopian (Cushite), one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern, and while the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin,
John 7:51
“Does our Law convict someone without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is [accused of] doing?”
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Wisdom is too exalted for a [hardened, arrogant]
He does not open his mouth in the gate [where the city’s rulers sit in judgment].
The princes stopped talking
And put their hands on their mouths;
Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.