Jeremiah 7:6

and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and forever.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:21Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.

Deuteronomy 6:14Go ye not after other gods of the gods of the nations round about you;

Deuteronomy 11:28and the curse, if ye do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and ye wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which ye know not.

Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.

2 Kings 24:4Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon it.

Psalms 82:3For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; 1 And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 1

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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