Exodus 22:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴And 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 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Psalms 69:24
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Psalms 76:7
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-24)

Here is, I. A law that he who debauched a young woman should be obliged to marry her, Exod. 22:16, 17. If she was betrothed to another, it was death to debauch her (Deut. 22:23, 24); but the law here mentioned respects her as single. But, if the father refused her to him, he was to give satisfaction in money for the injury and disgrace he had done her. This law puts an honour upon marriage and sho…