Kindness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningLeviticus 19:34Deuteronomy 22:1–4Psalms 112:5Proverbs 14:21Proverbs 19:22Proverbs 31:26Isaiah 11:13Zechariah 7:9Zechariah 7:10Matthew 5:7Matthew 5:42Matthew 25:34–36Luke 6:30Luke 6:34Luke 6:35Acts 20:35Romans 12:15Romans 15:1Romans 15:2Romans 15:5
• INSTANCES OF
• Pharaoh to JacobGenesis 45:16–20Genesis 47:5Genesis 47:6
• Pharaoh's daughter to MosesExodus 2:6–10
• Rahab to the spiesJoshua 2:6–16
• David to Mephibosheth2 Samuel 9:1–13
• Joab to Absalom2 Samuel 14:1–24
• Ahab to Ben-hadad1 Kings 20:32–34
• Elisha to the woman whose son he restored to life2 Kings 8:1
• Evil-merodach to Jehoiachin2 Kings 25:28–30
• Jehoshabeath to Joash2 Chronicles 22:11
• The Jews to the peopleNehemiah 5:8–19

The passages, in Bible order (60)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 45:16–20

   When the news reached Pharaoh’s house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.

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2. Genesis 47:5

   Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,

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3. Genesis 47:6

   the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 47:61 voice

   “In the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell - So it appears that the land of Goshen was the best of the land of Egypt. Men of activity - אנשי חיל anshey chayil, stout or robust men - such as were capable of bearing fatigue, and of rendering their authority respectable.

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4. Exodus 2:6–10

   When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

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5. Leviticus 19:34

   You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:341 voice

   “Or 2, as to church- privileges, so it concerns only those who were proselytes. Ye were strangers - And therefore are sensible of the fears, distresses, and miseries of such, which call for your pity, and you ought to do to them, as you desired others should do to you, when you were such.

   Everything gathered on Leviticus 19:34→

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6. Deuteronomy 22:1–4

   If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:1–41 voice

   “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray - The same humane, merciful, and wise regulations which we met with before, Exo 23:4, Exo 23:5, well calculated to keep in remembrance the second grand branch of the law of God, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. A humane man cannot bear to see even an ass fall under his burden, and not endeavor to relieve him; and a man who loves his neighbor as himself cannot see his property in danger without endeavoring to preserve it.

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7. Joshua 2:6–16

   (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)

   ›Commentary on Joshua 2:6–161 voice

   “Hid then with the stalks of flax - It is a matter of little consequence whether we translate פסתי העיץ pistey haets stalks of flax, or stalks of hemp: the word עץ ets, which signifies wood, serves to show that whether it was hemp or flax, it was in its rough, unmanufactured state; and as this was about the season, viz., the end of March or the beginning of April, in which the flax is ripe in that country, consequently Rahab’s flax might have been recently pulled, and was now drying on the roof of her house.

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8. 2 Samuel 9:1–13

   Then David asked, “Is there anyone left from the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for the sake of Jonathan?”

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 9:1–132 voices

   “Of Saul - He saith not of the house of Jonathan, for he knew not of any son he had left, and therefore thought his kindness and obligation was to pass to the next of his kindred. As for Mephibosheth, he was very young and obscure, and possibly concealed by his friends, lest David should cut him off, as hath been usual among princes.

   “Is there yet any that is left - David recollecting the covenant made with his friend Jonathan, now inquires after his family. It is supposed that political considerations prevented him from doing this sooner. Reasons of state often destroy all the charities of life.

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9. 2 Samuel 14:1–24

   Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 14:1–242 voices

   “Was towards - He desired to see him, but was ashamed to shew kindness to one whom God's law and his own conscience obliged him to punish; he wanted therefore a fair pretense, which therefore Joab gave him.

   “As one who was himself a delinquent, by the murder of Abner. He was conscious to himself of the guilt of blood, and that he was himself obnoxious to public justice, and therefore whatever favour he could procure to be shown to Absalom would corroborate his reprieve.

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10. 1 Kings 20:32–34

    So with sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please spare my life.’” And the king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 20:32–341 voice

    “Thy servant Ben-hadad - See the vicissitude of human affairs! A little before he was the haughtiest of all tyrants, and Ahab calls him his lord; now, so much is he humbled, that he will be glad to be reputed Ahab’s slave!

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11. 2 Kings 8:1

    Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 8:11 voice

    “The famine here recorded, and the conversation of the monarch with Gehazi, must have been anterior to the events related in 2 Kings 5 since we may be sure that a king of Israel would not have entered into familiar conversation with a confirmed leper. The writer of Kings probably col ected the miracles of Elisha from various sources, and did not always arrange them chronologically. Here the link of connection is to be found in the nature of the miracle. As Elisha on one occasion prophesied plenty, so on another he had prophesied a famine.

    Everything gathered on 2 Kings 8:1→

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12. 2 Kings 25:28–30

    And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

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    Jeremiah calls this son of Jehoiakim Jeconiah, and the Pharaoh Neco called the father of this man, though named Eliakim, Jehoiakim, whom Babylon, having carried off, cast forth before the gate, as the present prophet and Josephus in the tenth book of his Antiquities says. And the other editions have given the signet ring as a seal. And every person who through repentance makes shine again what is according to the image becomes a seal, a ring on the "right hand of God."

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13. 2 Chronicles 22:11

    But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.

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14. Nehemiah 5:8–19

    and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

    ›Commentary on Nehemiah 5:8–191 voice

    “Nehemiah contrasts his own example with that of the rich Jews. He had spent money in redeeming some countrymen in servitude among the pagan; they were causing others to be sold into slavery among the Jews.

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15. Esther 2:7

    And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

    ›Commentary on Esther 2:72 voices

    “And he brought up Hadassah (that is Esther) his uncle's daughter,.... Her Hebrew name was Hadassah, which signifies a myrtle, to which the Israelites, and good men among them, are sometimes compared, Zec 1:

    “Hadassah, הדסה hădassâh from הדס hădas (“myrtle”) would seem to have been the Hebrew, and Esther the Persian, name of the damsel. Esther is thought to be connected through the Zend with ἀστήρ astēr, “star.” But there is not at present any positive evidence of the existence in Old Persian of a kindred word.

    Everything gathered on Esther 2:7→

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16. Psalms 112:5

    It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

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    “Delightful is the man who shows mercy and lends. Because the Lord is merciful and compassionate, let the righteous man too imitate his Lord: let him also be merciful. Delightful is the man who shows mercy and lends. Does someone suppose that he is speaking about gold and about silver and about money? The righteous have so far been without anything to lend to others that they themselves received their food from others. So then, if I have nothing to give, am I no longer righteous?

    Everything gathered on Psalms 112:5→

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