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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Amos 8:5 OT

  Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

• Amos 8:6 OT

  that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

• James 5:4 NT

  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

• Proverbs 22:16 OT

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Ezekiel 22:29 OT

  The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

• Ezekiel 22:31 OT

  Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Isaiah 3:13-15 OT

  Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples. Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses. What do…

• Ezekiel 18:13 OT

  has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

• Job 22:7 OT

  You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

• Job 22:10 OT

  Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

• Proverbs 21:13 OT

  Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

• Job 20:19 OT

  For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

• Job 20:29 OT

  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

• Job 22:6 OT

  For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

• Isaiah 10:1-3 OT

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; 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…

• Amos 5:12 OT

  For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

• 2 Samuel 12:1-6 OT

  Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which…

• Luke 10:33-35 NT

  But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of…

• Judges 6:15 OT

  He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

• Ruth 2:2 OT

  Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

• 1 Kings 17:12 OT

  She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

• 2 Kings 4:2 OT

  Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

• Hebrews 11:37 NT

  They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

• Ruth 2:14 OT

  At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.