Farmers “arrest” the sheriff who was attempting to evict a widow from her home on behalf of an insurance company. Michigan 1952.
Why don’t we do this now? Why have we lost the sense of what is right?
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Addendum:
1Ti 5:3 Honor widows who are truly widows.
James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit* orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
* to look upon or after, to inspect, examine with the eyes
Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless (orphans), plead the widow’s cause.
Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (oppress) the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Psalm 68:5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Deuteronomy 24:17 “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,
Note: It is pretty clear that there is an obligation for us to protect those who are the weakest in our society; the widow (no husband for protection), the orphan (no father for protection) and of course, by inference, babies in their mother’s womb. dj