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Proverbs 22:23–24
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Proverbs 22:23
23For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
23*For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoile the soule of those that spoiled them.
- Chap. 23.11. iob.31.21.
Proverbs 22:24
24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
24Make no friendship with an angrie man: and with a furious man thou shalt not goe;
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 22:23
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To discuss, defend and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons offered to the tribunal or person who has the power of determining. In Scripture, to plead the cause of the righteous, as God, is to avenge or vindicate them against enemies, or to redress their grievances.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Plunder or goods taken by force, especially in war; also to rob, corrupt, ruin, or lay waste.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Plundered; pillaged; corrupted; rendered useless.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 22:24
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
friendship
Mutual affection, goodwill, loyalty, help, or intimacy between friends.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Feeling or showing anger; wrathful or provoked.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Raging, or mad.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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From verse 23
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Open the full verse study5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
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Open the full verse study12I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
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Open the full verse study36Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
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Open the full verse study11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
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Open the full verse study39¶ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
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Open the full verse study10All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
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Open the full verse study1JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
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Open the full verse study34Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
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Open the full verse study5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study9I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
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Open the full verse study12The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
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Open the full verse study8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
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Open the full verse study1WOE to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
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Open the full verse study1PLEAD my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
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Open the full verse study5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
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Open the full verse study15The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
From verse 24
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Open the full verse study22An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
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Open the full verse study14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
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Open the full verse study24Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
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