Deuteronomy 22:1
You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall in any case bring them again unto your brother.
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Leviticus 20:4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he gives of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
Proverbs 24:11If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Isaiah 8:17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Ezekiel 34:4The diseased have all of you not strengthened, neither have all of you healed that which was sick, neither have all of you bound up that which was broken, neither have all of you brought again that which was driven away, neither have all of you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have all of you ruled them.
Matthew 10:6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 18:12How think all of you? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and goes into the mountains, and seeks that which is gone astray?
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 22:1
The laws of this chapter provide, I. For the preservation of charity and good neighbourship, in the care of strayed or fallen cattle, ver. 1-4 . II. For the preservation of order and distinction, that men and women should not wear one another's clothes ( ver. 5 ), and that other needless mixtures should be avoided, ver. 9-11 . III. For the preservation of birds, ver. 6, 7 . IV. Of life, ver. 8 . V. Of the commandments, ver. 12 . VI. Of the reputation of a wife abused, if she were innocent ( ver. 13-19 ), but for… Read the whole commentary →