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Deuteronomy 10:18

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Children;   God Continued...;   Hospitality;   Orphan;   Strangers;   Widow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fatherless;   Orphans;   Promises, Divine;   Widow and Fatherless;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Judges;   Love;   Strangers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Garments;   Love of God, the;   Strangers in Israel;   Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Stranger;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Hospitality;   Moses;   Orphan;   Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Golden Rule;   Hospitality;   Neighbor;   Testimony;   Widow;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Citizenship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proselytes;   Stranger;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cloth, Clothing;   Fatherless;   Hospitality;   Justice;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Ethics;   Pity;   Poverty;   Sin;   Stranger;   Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Kindness (2);   Stranger;   Stranger, Alien, Foreigner;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Stranger;   Testament;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Execute;   Fatherless;   Relationships, Family;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aquila (Βλώμβσ);   Charity and Charitable Institutions;   Ethics;   Gentile;   God;   Hospitality;   Judaism;   Proselyte;   Widow;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 2;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the resident alien, giving him food and clothing.
Hebrew Names Version
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and clothing.
King James Version
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Lexham English Bible
And he executes justice for the orphan and widow, and he is one who loves the alien, to give to them food and clothing.
English Standard Version
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
New Century Version
He helps orphans and widows, and he loves foreigners and gives them food and clothes.
New English Translation
who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing.
Amplified Bible
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) by giving him food and clothing.
New American Standard Bible
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the stranger by giving him food and clothing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, & loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment.
Legacy Standard Bible
He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows love for the sojourner by giving him food and clothing.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord defends the rights of orphans and widows. He cares for foreigners and gives them food and clothing.
Complete Jewish Bible
He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Darby Translation
who executeth the judgment of the fatherless and the widow, and loveth the stranger, to give him food and clothing.
Easy-to-Read Version
He defends widows and orphans. He loves even the strangers living among us. He gives them food and clothes.
George Lamsa Translation
He does execute justice for the fatherless and the widows, and loves him who turns to him, and gives him food and clothing.
Good News Translation
He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes.
Literal Translation
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, to give to him food and clothing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and doeth righte vnto the fatherlesse and wedowe, and loueth the straunger, to geue him fode & rayment.
American Standard Version
He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
Bible in Basic English
Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He doth right vnto the fatherlesse and wydowe, and loueth the straunger, to geue hym foode and rayment.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
King James Version (1611)
He doeth execute the iudgement of the fatherlesse, and widow, and loueth the stranger, in giuing him food and raiment.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.
English Revised Version
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Berean Standard Bible
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He makith doom to the fadirles, and modirles, and to the widewe; he loueth a pilgrym, and yyueth to hym lyiflode and clothing.
Young's Literal Translation
He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.
Update Bible Version
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.
Webster's Bible Translation
He executeth the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
World English Bible
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in giving him food and clothing.
New King James Version
He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
New Living Translation
He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice. He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing.
New Life Bible
He does what is right and fair for the child without parents and the woman whose husband has died. He shows His love for the stranger by giving him food and clothing.
New Revised Standard
who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
executing the vindication of the orphan and the widow, - and loving sojourner, giving him food and raiment.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.
Revised Standard Version
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

Contextual Overview

12So now Israel, what do you think God expects from you? Just this: Live in his presence in holy reverence, follow the road he sets out for you, love him, serve God , your God, with everything you have in you, obey the commandments and regulations of God that I'm commanding you today—live a good life. 14Look around you: Everything you see is God 's—the heavens above and beyond, the Earth, and everything on it. But it was your ancestors who God fell in love with; he picked their children—that's you!—out of all the other peoples. That's where we are right now. So cut away the thick calluses from your heart and stop being so willfully hardheaded. God , your God, is the God of all gods, he's the Master of all masters, a God immense and powerful and awesome. He doesn't play favorites, takes no bribes, makes sure orphans and widows are treated fairly, takes loving care of foreigners by seeing that they get food and clothing. 19You must treat foreigners with the same loving care— remember, you were once foreigners in Egypt. Reverently respect God , your God, serve him, hold tight to him, back up your promises with the authority of his name. He's your praise! He's your God! He did all these tremendous, these staggering things that you saw with your own eyes. 22 When your ancestors entered Egypt, they numbered a mere seventy souls. And now look at you—you look more like the stars in the night skies in number. And your God did it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

doth: Psalms 68:5, Psalms 103:6, Psalms 146:9, Isaiah 1:17, Jeremiah 49:11, Hosea 14:3

loveth: Psalms 145:9, Matthew 5:45, Acts 14:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:22 - General Leviticus 19:33 - And if Leviticus 25:35 - a stranger Deuteronomy 1:16 - the stranger Deuteronomy 13:14 - General Deuteronomy 27:19 - General Deuteronomy 32:4 - all his 2 Chronicles 19:7 - respect of persons Job 29:12 - the fatherless Psalms 10:14 - helper Psalms 82:3 - Defend Psalms 99:4 - executest Proverbs 15:25 - but Jeremiah 22:3 - do no violence Zechariah 7:9 - saying 1 Timothy 5:3 - widows Hebrews 13:2 - not

Cross-References

2 Samuel 8:9
Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had struck down the entire army of Hadadezer. So he sent his son Joram to King David to greet and congratulate him for fighting and defeating them, for Toi and Hadadezer were old enemies. He brought with him gifts of silver, gold, and bronze. King David consecrated these along with the silver and gold from all the nations he had conquered—from Aram, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and from Amalek, along with the plunder from Hadadezer son of Rehob king of Zobah.
2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria brought in people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and relocated them in the towns of Samaria, replacing the exiled Israelites. They moved in as if they owned the place and made themselves at home. When the Assyrians first moved in, God was just another god to them; they neither honored nor worshiped him. Then God sent lions among them and people were mauled and killed.
2 Chronicles 13:4
Abijah took a prominent position on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and gave this speech: "Listen, Jeroboam and all Israel! Don't you realize that God , the one and only God of Israel, established David and his sons as the permanent rulers of Israel, ratified by a ‘covenant of salt'— God 's kingdom ruled by God 's king? And what happened? Jeroboam, the son of Solomon's slave Nebat, rebelled against his master. All the riffraff joined his cause and were too much for Rehoboam, Solomon's true heir. Rehoboam didn't know his way around—besides he was a real wimp; he couldn't stand up against them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow,.... Who have none to help them, and whose patron and defender he is, and will do them justice himself, and take care that it is done them by others, or avenge their injuries, for he is a Father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widow, in his holy habitation; Psalms 68:5

and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment; one that is in a foreign country, at a distance from his native land, and destitute of friends; such God in his providence takes care of, and expresses his love and kindness to, by giving them the necessaries of life, food, and raiment.


 
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