KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 23:10–11
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Proverbs 23:10
10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
10*‖Remoue not the old landmarke; and enter not into the fields of the fatherlesse.
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- Chap. 22.28. deut. 19 14. and 27.17.
Proverbs 23:11
11For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
11*For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
- Chap. 22.23. iob. 31.21.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 23:10
To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Advanced in age; having existed a long time; former or belonging to an earlier time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A fixed mark showing the boundary of land.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To go or come in; to penetrate; to become an ingredient or constituent part; to enter the mind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 23:11
The Lord as the one who redeems, ransoms, saves, delivers, and pleads the cause of his people; the scriptural Redeemer.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Possessing or displaying great strength, power, ability, rank, or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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
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From verse 10
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Open the full verse study28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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Open the full verse study10And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
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Open the full verse study17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Open the full verse study27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Open the full verse study3Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
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Open the full verse study2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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Open the full verse study5For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
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Open the full verse study9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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Open the full verse study21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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Open the full verse study27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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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 study6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
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Open the full verse study9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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Open the full verse study23For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
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Open the full verse study25For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
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Open the full verse study19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Open the full verse study22¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
23If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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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 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 study33¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34Their 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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