Orphan

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Exodus 22:22-24 OT

  “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives…

• Deuteronomy 10:18 OT

  He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

• Deuteronomy 14:28 OT

  At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 14:29 OT

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless…

• Deuteronomy 16:11 OT

  You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh…

• Deuteronomy 16:14 OT

  You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 24:17-22 OT

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this…

• Deuteronomy 26:12 OT

  When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates…

• Deuteronomy 26:13 OT

  You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have…

• Deuteronomy 27:19 OT

  ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Job 6:27 OT

  Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

• Job 22:9 OT

  You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

• Job 24:3 OT

  They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

• Job 24:9 OT

  There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

• Job 29:12 OT

  Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

• Job 29:13 OT

  the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

• Job 31:16-18 OT

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her…

• Job 31:21 OT

  if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

• Psalms 10:14 OT

  But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

• Psalms 10:17 OT

  Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

• Psalms 10:18 OT

  to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

• Psalms 27:10 OT

  When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

• Psalms 68:5 OT

  A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

• Psalms 82:3 OT

  “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.