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Deuteronomy 10:18

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

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In The King James Version

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

In Context

17For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

19So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:20Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

Exodus 22:22Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

Numbers 10:32And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

Psalms 68:5\68:4\Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

Psalms 103:6The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

Psalms 146:9The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:13-22

Exhortation to Obedience. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Lord , and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to… Read the whole commentary →

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