Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not act with deceit toward the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow, and if you do not pour out innocent blood in this place, and if you do not walk after strange gods, which is to your own harm,

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In The King James Version

If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

In Context

5For if you direct your ways and your intentions well, if you exercise judgment between a man and his neighbor,

7then I will live with you in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from the beginning and even forever.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 6:14You shall not go after the strange gods of all the Gentiles, who are around you.

Deuteronomy 11:28It will be a curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but instead you withdraw from the way, which I am revealing to you now, and you walk after foreign gods that you have not known.

Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he who subverts the judgment of the new arrival, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.

2 Kings 24:4and because of the innocent blood which he shed, and because he filled Jerusalem with the slaughter of the innocent. And for this reason, the Lord was not willing to be appeased.

Psalms 82:3For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:2-16

A Call of Repentance. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord , all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord . 3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , are… Read the whole commentary →

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