Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible




Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!" Verse ConceptsFalse Confidenceempiresdefence, divineOrphansGod's MercyThings Which Cannot SaveGod Caring For Orphans

"You must not afflict any widow or orphan. If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.


Then the Levites (because they have no allotment or inheritance with you), the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows of your villages may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work you do. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness


You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSorrowSympathyUnhappinessAfflictions, Consolation DuringChoosing God's WayGod Helpsrehabilitation

You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them. Verse ConceptsThose Not Fearingoppressionrehabilitationvindicationterrorism




and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless. Verse ConceptsEmotions, Shown By GodGod KillingGod KillsGod Will Be Angry

Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations, to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans. What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless. Verse ConceptsEmotions, Shown By GodGod KillingGod KillsGod Will Be Angry

In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat. Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sPlansAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesKilling Israelites

Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them. Verse ConceptsNoonSandWidowsThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionThose Who DestroyMany In Israel

and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless. Verse ConceptsEmotions, Shown By GodGod KillingGod KillsGod Will Be Angry

So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle. Verse ConceptsRevenge, Examples OfFamine KillingApproval To Kill