Bible Cross References
I delivered
Job 22:5-9
5
Is not your wickedness abundant, and your sins innumerable?
6
And you have taken [the] security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.
7
Neither have you given water to the thirsty to drink, but have taken away the morsel of the hungry.
8
And you have accepted the persons of some; and you have established those [that were already settled] on the earth.
9
But you have sent widows away empty, and have afflicted orphans.
Nehemiah 5:2-13
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And some said, We [are] numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take grain, and eat, and live.
3
And some said, [As to] our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge [them], and we will take grain, and eat.
4
And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes- our fields, and our vineyards, and houses [are pledged].
5
And now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brothers, our children [are] as their children. Yet behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved; and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards [belong] to the nobles.
6
And I was very angry as I heard their cry and these words.
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And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,
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and I said to them, We of our free will have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do you sell your brothers? And shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.
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And I said, The thing which you do is not good; you will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies.
10
Both my brothers, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and grain. Let us now leave off this usury!
11
Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them grain and wine and oil of the money.
12
And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as you say. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word.
13
And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labors, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord; and the people did this thing.
Psalm 72:12
For He has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper.
Psalm 82:2-4
2
How long will you judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.
3
Judge the orphan and poor; do justice to the low and needy.
4
Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.
Proverbs 21:13
He that stops his ears from hearing the poor, himself also shall cry, and there shall be none to hear [him].
Proverbs 24:11
Deliver them that are led away to death, and redeem them that are appointed to be slain; spare not [your help].
Proverbs 24:12
But if you should say, I know not this man; know that the Lord knows the hearts of all; and He that formed breath for all, He knows all things, who renders to every man according to his works.
Jeremiah 22:16
They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor- is not this your not knowing Me? Says the Lord.
the fatherless
Exodus 22:22-24
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You shall hurt no widow or orphan.
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And if you should afflict them by ill treatment, and they should cry aloud to Me, I will surely hear their voice.
24
And I will be very angry, and will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.
Deuteronomy 10:18
executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and He loves the stranger, to give him food and clothing.
Psalm 68:5
[who is] the Father of the orphans, and Judge of the widows; [such is] God in His holy place.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and [the] Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.