Orphan
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Orphan’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 25–47 of 47 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Psalms 94:6 OT
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
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Psalms 146:9 OT
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
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Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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Isaiah 1:17 OT
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
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Isaiah 1:23 OT
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
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Isaiah 10:1 OT
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
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Isaiah 10:2 OT
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
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Jeremiah 7:6 OT
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;
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Jeremiah 7:7 OT
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
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Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
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Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
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Hosea 14:3 OT
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
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Malachi 3:5 OT
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…
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James 1:27 NT
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
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Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
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Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah,…
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“Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands (for my father fought for…
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2 Samuel 9:3 OT
The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”
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Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring. But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among…
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Esther 2:7 OT
He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
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We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.