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Prov. 31:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all κsuch as are appointed to destruction.

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the sons of.

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Prov. 24:7,11‑12• ⁷Wisdom is too high for a fool: he will not open his mouth in the gate.
¹¹Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.
¹²If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth it; and he rendereth to man according to his work. (Prov. 24:7,11‑12)

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1 Sam. 19:4‑7• ⁴And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against thee; for also what he did was very advantageous to thee;
⁵for he put his life in hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou didst see it, and didst rejoice; why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, in slaying David without cause?
⁶And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, As Jehovah liveth, he shall not be put to death!
⁷Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan declared to him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as previously. (1 Sam. 19:4‑7)

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1 Sam. 20:32• ³²And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? what has he done? (1 Sam. 20:32)

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1 Sam. 22:14‑15• ¹⁴And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?
¹⁵Was it to-day that I began to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king charge anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. (1 Sam. 22:14‑15)

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Esther 4:13‑16• ¹³And Mordecai bade to answer Esther: Imagine not in thy heart that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
¹⁴For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
¹⁵And Esther bade to answer Mordecai:
¹⁶Go, gather together all the Jews that are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise, and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish. (Esther 4:13‑16)

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Job 29:9,17• ⁹Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
¹⁷And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. (Job 29:9,17)

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Psa. 82:3‑4• ³Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;
⁴Rescue the poor and needy, deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. (Psa. 82:3‑4)

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Jer. 26:16‑19,24• ¹⁶And the princes and all the people said unto the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy to die; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.
¹⁷And there rose up certain of the elders of the land and spoke to all the congregation of the people, saying,
¹⁸Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
¹⁹Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and supplicate Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil that he had pronounced against them? And we should be doing a great evil against our souls.
²⁴--Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death. (Jer. 26:16‑19,24)

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Jer. 38:7‑10• ⁷And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon--now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin,
⁸--and Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,
⁹My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.
¹⁰And the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. (Jer. 38:7‑10)

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John 7:51• ⁵¹Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does? (John 7:51)

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Heb. the sons of destruction.

Psa. 79:11• ¹¹Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die; (Psa. 79:11)

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Psa. 79• (Psa. 79)

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• The true remedy is for the judge of the oppressed to hear their cause patiently and render a decision in righteousness, as he cannot do if under the power of wine. (“Proverbs Thirty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

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Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolateh.

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Lit. "sons of decease" (i.e. of those deceased).