Exodus 22:24 · KJV
“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”
— Exodus 22:24
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
If thou lend money to {any of} my people {that is} poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Exodus 22 — Context
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.
25If thou lend money to {any of} my people {that is} poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
26If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Cross References
Psalms 109:9
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused {him} to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. {the mother...: or, the mother city a young man spoiling, etc, or, the mother and the young men}
Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.
Psalms 78:63-64
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. {given...: Heb. praised}
Psalms 69:24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Psalms 90:11
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, {so is} thy wrath.
Psalms 76:7
Thou, {even} thou, {art} to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
Hebrews 10:31
{It is} a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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