Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Bible References
Rob
Proverbs 23:10 Do not move the ancient boundary
Orgo into the fields of the fatherless,
Or
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.
Oppress
Proverbs 22:16 He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself
Or who gives to the rich,will only come to poverty.
Or who gives to the rich,
Exodus 23:6
“You shall not pervert the justice due to your needy brother in his dispute.
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And theorphan who had no helper.
And the
Job 31:16 “If I have kept the poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes ofthe widow to fail,
Or have caused the eyes of
Zechariah 7:10
and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the orphan, and those who turn aside the alien and do not fear Me,” says the Lord of hosts.
General references
Exodus 21:26
“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.