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 fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
1 Samuel 19:4
So Jonathan spoke well about David to his father Saul and said to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his service for you [has been] very good.
1 Samuel 20:32
But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
1 Samuel 22:14
But Ahimelech answered the king and said, "And who among all your servants [is] as faithful as David? He [is] the son-in-law of the king who moves [quickly] to safeguard you and is honored in your house.
Esther 4:13
Then Mordecai told [them] to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved [in] the palace of the king more than all the Jews.
Job 29:9
Officials refrained from talking, and they laid [their] hand on their mouth.
Psalm 82:3
Judge [on behalf of the] helpless and [the] orphan; provide justice [to the] afflicted and [the] poor.
Jeremiah 26:16
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "{This man does not deserve} a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us."
Jeremiah 38:7
When Ebed-melech the Cushite, {a eunuch} who [was] in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit--now the king [was] sitting at the Gate of Benjamin--
John 7:51
"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"
General references
Deuteronomy 25:1
"When a legal dispute {takes place} between men and they come near to the court, and [the judges] judge [with respect to] them, then they shall declare the righteous [to be] in the right and they shall condemn the wicked,
Matthew 5:2
And opening his mouth he began to teach them, saying,