Bible Cross References
I delivered
Job 22:5-9
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Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities without end?
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For you have taken a pledge from your brother for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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You have not given the weary water to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
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But the man of strength possesses the land, and the honorable man dwells in it.
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You have sent widows away empty, and crushed the arms of the fatherless.
Nehemiah 5:2-13
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For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
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There were also some who said, We have mortgaged our fields and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.
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There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and vineyards.
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Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our fields and vineyards.
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And I was extremely infuriated when I heard their outcry and these words.
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After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, Each of you is exacting usury from his brother. So I appointed a great assembly against them.
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And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brothers? Or should they be sold to us? Then they were silenced and found nothing to answer.
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Then I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
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I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Now let us leave off this usury!
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Restore now to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them.
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So they said, We will restore it, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests, and caused them to swear that they would do according to this word.
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I also shook out empty the bosom of my garment and said, So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not carry out this word. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen! and praised Jehovah. Then the people did according to this word.
Psalm 72:12
For He shall deliver the needy when he cries, and the lowly who has no helper.
Psalm 82:2-4
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How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
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Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them out of the hand of the wicked.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 24:11
If you refrain from delivering those being led away to death, those about to die;
Proverbs 24:12
if you say, Behold, we did not know it; does not He who ponders the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He not know it? And shall He not repay to a man according to his deeds?
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Was this not knowledge of Me? says Jehovah.
the fatherless
Exodus 22:22-24
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You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
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If you afflict them to humiliate them, and they make an outcry to cry out unto Me, I will hear and give heed to their cry;
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and My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, to give him food and clothing.
Psalm 68:5
In His holy dwelling God is a father to the fatherless, and a judge for the widows.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.