Jeremiah 7:6 - Exposition

The stranger, the fatherless, and the widow ; specially commended to the care of the Israelites ( Exodus 22:21 , Exodus 22:22 —a passage belonging to one of the most evidently primitive portions of the Pentateuch; Deuteronomy 24:17 , Deuteronomy 24:19 , Deuteronomy 24:21 ; Deuteronomy 27:19 ; comp. Isaiah 1:17 , Isaiah 1:23 ; Isaiah 10:2 ; Ezekiel 22:7 ). In plus; i . e . specially in Jerusalem, but not altogether excluding the rest of the kingdom (see Jeremiah 7:3 , Jeremiah 7:7 ).