Deuteronomy 10:18

executing the vindication of the orphan and the widow,—and loving a sojourner, giving him food and raiment.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 as touching Yahweh your God, he, is God of gods, and Lord of lords; the great the mighty, and the fearful GOD, who respecteth not persons, nor accepteth a bribe;

19Therefore shall ye love the sojourner,—for sojourners, became ye in the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:20He that sacrificeth to the gods shall be devoted to destruction,—except [he sacrificeth] to Yahweh alone.

Exodus 22:22Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate:

Numbers 10:32and it shall be if thou wilt go with us,—yea it shall be that with the very good wherewith Yahweh shall do us good, will we do good unto thee.

Psalms 68:5The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.

Psalms 103:6Yahweh is one, who executeth righteousness, Yea vindication for all the oppressed.

Psalms 146:9Yahweh, who preserveth sojourners, The fatherless and widows, he relieveth,—but, the way of the lawless, he overturneth.

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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