Exodus 22:24
and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee [as] a stranger and a sojourner.
Deuteronomy 23:20To a foreigner thou may lend upon interest, but to thy brother thou shall not lend upon interest, that LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou put thy hand to, in the land where thou go in to possess it.
Nehemiah 5:7Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the ranking men and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.
Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.
Psalms 69:24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.
Psalms 78:63Fire devoured their young men, and their virgins had no marriage-song.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:17-25
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22… Read the whole commentary →