Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
General references
Bible References
Defend
Psalm 10:18
To judge the orphan and the dejected, that the man of the earth shall no more add to make afraid.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He did the judgment of the orphan and the widow, and he loved the stranger to give to him bread and a garment
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow.
Do
Jeremiah 5:28
They became fat, they shone: they passed over words of evil: they judged not judgment, the judgment of the orphan, and they will give success; and the judgment of the needy they judged not.
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judgment and justice, and deliver him taken by force, from the hand of him oppressing: ye shall not be violent, ye shall not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, and ye shall not pour but innocent blood in this place.
James 1:27
Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.
General references
Exodus 23:3
And the poor one thou shalt not make proud in his cause.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there shall be a controversy between men and they drew near to judgment, and they judged them; and they justified the just and condemned the unjust.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.
2 Kings 8:3
And it will be from the end of seven years, and the woman will turn back from the land of the rovers, and come to cry to the king for her house and for her field.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.
Isaiah 59:14
And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.