Orphan
40 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
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A Figure of Zion in Affliction
- Lamentations 5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
Daughters of Zelophehad
- Numbers 27:1–5 Now the daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and …
Esther
- Esther 2:7 And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai …
General Scriptures Concerning
- Exodus 22:22–24 You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. …
- Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Deuteronomy 14:28–29 At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates. …
- Deuteronomy 16:11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name — you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, …
- Deuteronomy 16:14 And you shall rejoice in your feast— you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 24:17–22 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. …
- Deuteronomy 26:12–13 When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates. …
- Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Job 6:27 You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
- Job 22:9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
- Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
- Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 29:12–13 because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper. …
- Job 31:16–18 If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail, …
- Job 31:21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
- Psalm 10:14 But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalm 10:17–18 You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear, …
- Psalm 27:10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
- Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.
- Psalm 82:3 Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
- Psalm 94:6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
- Psalm 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- Proverbs 23:10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Isaiah 1:23 Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- Isaiah 10:1–2 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, …
- Jeremiah 5:28 They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
- Jeremiah 7:6–7 if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, …
- Jeremiah 22:3 This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- Jeremiah 49:11 Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- Hosea 14:3 Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and …
- James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Joash
- 2 Kings 11:1–12 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs. …
Jotham
- Judges 9:16–21 Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves— …
Lot
- Genesis 11:27–28 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. …
Mephibosheth
- 2 Samuel 9:3 So the king asked, “Is there anyone left of the house of Saul to whom I can show the kindness of God?” Ziba answered, “There is still Jonathan’s son, who is lame in both feet.”
Related topics
FatherlessWidowsWidowUsurpation of Political Functions by AthaliahConspiracy of JehoiadaMahlah
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.