Landmarks
A boundary stone is a plain thing, yet the Bible treats moving one as serious. Proverbs 22 says, “Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” Deuteronomy 27 pairs it with a curse, and Proverbs 23 ties the warning to the fields of the fatherless, who had no one to defend their land. Hosea 5 says Judah’s princes were “like them that remove the bound.” Behind each verse is the same worry: that the strong will quietly take from the weak. Deuteronomy 19 is a good place to start reading.
6 verses
Deuteronomy
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Proverbs
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Hosea
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.