Exodus 22:24
and My anger has burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
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23if you really afflict him, surely if he cries to Me at all, I certainly hear his cry;
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And when your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you have kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he has lived with you;
Deuteronomy 23:20You may lend in usury to a stranger, but you do not lend in usury to your brother, so that your God YHWH blesses you in every putting forth of your hand on the land to where you go in to possess it.
Nehemiah 5:7and my heart reigns over me, and I strive with the nobles, and with the prefects, and say to them, “You are exacting usury on one another”; and I set against them a great assembly,
Job 31:23For calamity [from] God [is] a dread to me, || And because of His excellence I am not able.
Psalms 69:24Pour Your indignation on them, || And the fierceness of Your anger seizes them.
Psalms 78:63Fire has consumed His young men, || And His virgins have not been praised.
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 →