Exodus 22:24
and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, [be he] stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.
Deuteronomy 23:20of a foreigner thou mayest take interest, but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Nehemiah 5:7And I consulted with myself; and I remonstrated with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother! And I set a great assembly against them.
Job 31:23For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
Psalms 69:24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them.
Psalms 78:63The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] 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 →