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 have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.
Nehemiah 5:1
And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,
Job 5:15
And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
General references
Exodus 23:6
'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;
Deuteronomy 25:1
'When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
2 Kings 8:3
And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman turneth back from the land of the Philistines, and goeth out to cry unto the king, for her house, and for her field.
Proverbs 24:11
If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked.
Isaiah 59:14
And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,