the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 23:11
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for their Redeemer is strong,and he will champion their cause against you.
For their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
God, their defender, is strong; he will take their side against you.
For their Redeemer is strong and mighty; He will plead their case against you.
For their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
For their Redeemer is strong;He will plead their case against you.
for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
God All-Powerful is there to defend them against you.
for their Redeemer is strong; he will take up their fight against you.
for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.
The Lord will be against you. He is powerful and protects orphans.
For their saviour is mighty; he will plead their cause with you.
The Lord is their powerful defender, and he will argue their case against you.
For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.
for their Redeemer is mighty, He will contend for their cause with you.
For he yt deliuereth them is mightie, euen he shal defende their cause agaynst the.
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause with thee.
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
For their redeemer is mightie, euen he shall defend their cause against thee.
for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.
For their redeemer is strong; he shall plead their cause against thee.
For the neiybore of hem is strong, and he schal deme her cause ayens thee.
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against you.
For their redeemer [is] mighty; he will plead their cause with thee.
for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.
For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.
For their Redeemer is strong; he himself will bring their charges against you.
For the One Who saves them is strong. He will stand by them and give them help against you.
for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
For, their near of kin, is strong, he, will plead their cause with thee.
For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 22:23, Exodus 22:22-24, Deuteronomy 27:19, Psalms 12:5, Jeremiah 50:33, Jeremiah 50:34, Jeremiah 51:36
Reciprocal: Exodus 22:23 - I will surely Deuteronomy 24:15 - lest he Deuteronomy 27:17 - General Job 6:27 - the fatherless Job 31:21 - lifted Psalms 35:1 - Plead Psalms 43:1 - plead Psalms 54:1 - judge Psalms 136:24 - General Psalms 140:12 - the Lord Psalms 146:7 - executeth Proverbs 22:22 - Rob Isaiah 3:13 - standeth up Jeremiah 49:11 - thy fatherless Hosea 14:3 - for Amos 4:1 - which oppress Zechariah 7:10 - oppress Malachi 3:5 - against those
Cross-References
Then Abraham got up, bowed respectfully to the people of the land, the Hittites, and said, "If you're serious about helping me give my wife a proper burial, intercede for me with Ephron son of Zohar. Ask him to sell me the cave of Machpelah that he owns, the one at the end of his land. Ask him to sell it to me at its full price for a burial plot, with you as witnesses."
Abraham bowed respectfully before the assembled council and answered Ephron: "Please allow me—I want to pay the price of the land; take my money so that I can go ahead and bury my wife."
"Anyone who kills another may be executed only on the testimony of eyewitnesses. But no one can be executed on the testimony of only one witness.
But only on the testimony of two or three witnesses may a person be put to death. No one may be put to death on the testimony of one witness. The witnesses must throw the first stones in the execution, then the rest of the community joins in. You have to purge the evil from your community.
You cannot convict anyone of a crime or sin on the word of one witness. You need two or three witnesses to make a case.
Boaz went straight to the public square and took his place there. Before long the "closer relative," the one mentioned earlier by Boaz, strolled by. "Step aside, old friend," said Boaz. "Take a seat." The man sat down.
Boaz then addressed the elders and all the people in the town square that day: "You are witnesses today that I have bought from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech and Kilion and Mahlon, including responsibility for Ruth the foreigner, the widow of Mahlon—I'll take her as my wife and keep the name of the deceased alive along with his inheritance. The memory and reputation of the deceased is not going to disappear out of this family or from his hometown. To all this you are witnesses this very day."
All the people in the town square that day, backing up the elders, said, "Yes, we are witnesses. May God make this woman who is coming into your household like Rachel and Leah, the two women who built the family of Israel. May God make you a pillar in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem! With the children God gives you from this young woman, may your family rival the family of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah."
"Then he said to those standing there, ‘Take the money from him and give it to the servant who doubled my stake.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For their Redeemer [is] mighty,.... As he must needs be, since the Lord of hosts is his name; who sympathizes with them, has mercy on them, is their father, and their friend; see Jeremiah 50:34;
he shall plead their cause with thee; or "against thee", as the Vulgate Latin version; and will certainly carry it for them, and against thee; for, when he undertakes a cause, he pleads it thoroughly.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The reason is given for the precept Proverbs 23:10.
Their redeemer - See Job 19:25 note. It was the duty of the גאל gā'al, the next of kin, to take on himself, in case of murder, the office of avenger of blood Numbers 35:19. By a slight extension the word was applied to one who took on himself a like office in cases short of this. Here, therefore, the thought is that, destitute as the fatherless may seem, there is One who claims them as His next of kin, and will avenge them. Yahweh Himself is in this sense their גאל gā'al, their Redeemer.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 23:11. For their redeemer is mighty — גאלם goalam, their kinsman. The word means the person who has a right, being next in blood, to redeem a field or estate, alienated from the family, to avenge the blood of a murdered relative, by slaying the murderer; and to take to wife a brother's widow, who had died childless, in order to preserve the family. The strength here mentioned refers to the justness of his claim, the extent of his influence, and the powerful abettors of such a cause. But in reference to the orphans here mentioned, they having no kinsman, God takes up, vindicates, and avenges their cause.
