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 exalted (lofty) for a fool. He does not open his mouth at the gate.
1 Samuel 19:4
Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. You should not commit a sin against your servant David, he said. He has not sinned against you. He has in fact done some very fine things for you.
1 Samuel 20:32
Jonathan asked his father: Why should he be killed? What has he done?
1 Samuel 22:14
Ahimelech asked the king: But whom among all your officials can you trust like David? Your Majesty, he is your son-in-law, the commander of your bodyguard. He is honored in your own household.
Esther 4:13
Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.
Job 29:9
The nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths.
Psalm 82:3
Defend the weak and fatherless. Protect the rights of the oppressed and the poor.
Jeremiah 26:16
The judges and the other people told the priests and prophets: Since Jeremiah only told us what Jehovah our God had said, we do not think he deserves to die.
Jeremiah 38:7
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch (officer) who worked in the royal palace, heard that they had put me in the well. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate.
John 7:51
Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out what he has done?
General references
Deuteronomy 25:1
When there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case. They justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Matthew 5:2
He opened his mouth and taught them: