ORPHAN

Passages on this topic · 76

• Genesis 11:27

  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.

• Genesis 11:28

  Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

• Exodus 22:22

  “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

• Exodus 22:23

  If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

• Exodus 22:24

  and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

• Numbers 27:1

  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, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 27:2

  They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

• Numbers 27:3

  “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

• Numbers 27:4

  Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

• Numbers 27:5

  Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 10:18

  He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

• Deuteronomy 14:28

  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

  The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

• Deuteronomy 16:11

  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 your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 16:14

  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

  You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

• Deuteronomy 24:18

  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 thing.

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

• Deuteronomy 24:20

  When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

• Deuteronomy 24:22

  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

• Deuteronomy 26:12

  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, and be filled.

• Deuteronomy 26:13

  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 commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

• Deuteronomy 27:19

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

• Judges 9:16

  “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

• Judges 9:17

  (for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

• Judges 9:18

  and you have risen up against my father’s house today, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

• Judges 9:19

  if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;

• Judges 9:20

  but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.”

• Judges 9:21

  Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

• 2 Samuel 9:3

  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.”

• 2 Kings 11:1

  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

• 2 Kings 11:3

  He was with her hidden in Yahweh’s house six years while Athaliah reigned over the land.

• 2 Kings 11:4

  In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.

• 2 Kings 11:5

  He commanded them, saying, “This is what you must do: a third of you, who come in on the Sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

• 2 Kings 11:6

  a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

• 2 Kings 11:7

  The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:8

  You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain. Be with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.”

• 2 Kings 11:9

  The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

• 2 Kings 11:10

  The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 11:11

  The guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, around the king.

• 2 Kings 11:12

  Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

• Esther 2:7

  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.

• Job 6:27

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

• Job 22:9

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

• Job 24:3

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

• Job 24:9

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

• Job 29:12

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

• Job 29:13

  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

  “If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

• Job 31:17

  or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

• Job 31:18

  (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);

• Job 31:21

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

• Psalms 10:14

  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

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

• Psalms 10:18

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

• Psalms 27:10

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

• Psalms 68:5

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

• Psalms 82:3

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

• Psalms 94:6

  They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

• Psalms 146:9

  Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

• Proverbs 23:10

  Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 10:1

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

• Isaiah 10:2

  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!

• Jeremiah 5:28

  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 judge the right of the needy.

• Jeremiah 7:6

  if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

• Jeremiah 7:7

  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.

• Jeremiah 22:3

  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, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

• Jeremiah 49:11

  Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

• Lamentations 5:3

  We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

• Hosea 14:3

  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.”

• Malachi 3:5

  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 who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• James 1:27

  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.