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Proverbs 23

Prov. 23:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Remove
nacag (Hebrew #5253)
to retreat
KJV usage: departing away, remove, take (hold), turn away.
Pronounce: naw-sag'
Origin: a primitive root
a not the old
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
ζlandmark
gbuwl (Hebrew #1366)
from 1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extens. the territory inclosed
KJV usage: border, bound, coast, X great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
Pronounce: gheb-ool'
Origin: or (shortened) gbul {gheb-ool'}
; and enter
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
not into the fields
sadeh (Hebrew #7704)
from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat)
KJV usage: country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.
Pronounce: saw-deh'
Origin: or saday {saw-dah'-ee}
of the fatherless
yathowm (Hebrew #3490)
a bereaved person
KJV usage: fatherless (child), orphan.
Pronounce: yaw-thome'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lonely
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Prov. 22:28• 28Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. (Prov. 22:28)
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or, bound.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 22:28• 28Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. (Prov. 22:28)
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Deut. 19:14• 14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess. (Deut. 19:14)
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Deut. 27:17• 17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:17)
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Job 24:2• 2They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them; (Job 24:2)
landmark.
or, bound.
fatherless.
Job 6:27• 27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend. (Job 6:27)
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Job 22:9• 9Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. (Job 22:9)
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Job 24:3,9• 3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: (Job 24:3,9)
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Job 31:21‑23• 21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
 22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
 23For calamity from *God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless. (Job 31:21‑23)
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Psa. 94:6• 6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless, (Psa. 94:6)
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Jer. 7:5• 5But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour, (Jer. 7:5)
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Jer. 22:3• 3Thus saith Jehovah: Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place. (Jer. 22:3)
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Zech. 7:10• 10and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. (Zech. 7:10)
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Mal. 3:5• 5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
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James 1:27• 27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
• {v.10-11} He who, because of their apparent helplessness, invades the field of the widow or the orphan, in order to enlarge his own possessions, will learn to his sorrow that they have a Goel, or Kinsman-Redeemer, in Jehovah Himself. (“Proverbs Twenty-Three” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: