Verse 3

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
  • Deut 24:17-21 : 17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge: 18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do this thing. 19 When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it? and I will restore it to you.
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he possessed the land; and the honorable man lived in it. 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 31:16-17 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;