Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
General references
Bible References
Rid
Psalm 140:12
I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
General references
Exodus 23:6
Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to thy poor in his case.
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.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
2 Kings 8:3
And it came to pass at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
Proverbs 24:11
Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Isaiah 59:14
And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.