Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
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Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He opens not his mouth in the gate.
1 Samuel 19:4
And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against thee, and because his works have been very good toward thee.
1 Samuel 20:32
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? What has he done?
1 Samuel 22:14
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?
Esther 4:13
Then Mordecai bade them return answer to Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shall escape in the king's house more than all the Jews.
Job 29:9
The rulers refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Psalm 82:3
Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets. This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of LORD our God.
Jeremiah 38:7
Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),
John 7:51
Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does?
General references
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [they] judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the iniquitous.
Matthew 5:2
And having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying,