To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms
PoetrySo the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Exodus
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsEven he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsTherefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Judges
HistoryBehold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis
LawCursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesLet darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
Numbers
Law / MosesBetter is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs
WisdomI will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.