11If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? …
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. …
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-12)Here is, 1. A great duty required of us, and that is to appear for the relief of oppressed innocency. If we see the lives or livelihoods of any in danger of being taken away unjustly, we ought to bestir ourselves all we can to save them, by disproving the false accusations on which they are condemned and seeking out proofs of their innocency. Though the persons be not such as we are under any part…
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