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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 22:29 - Strong Concordance

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Eze 22:29 Strong Concordance The people [05971] of the land [0776] have used oppression [06231] [06233], and exercised [01497] robbery [01498], and have vexed [03238] the poor [06041] and needy [034]: yea, they have oppressed [06231] the stranger [01616] wrongfully [04941].
  King James The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The people--put last, after the mention of those in office. Corruption had spread downwards through the whole community.

wrongfully--that is, "without cause," gratuitously, without the stranger proselyte giving any just provocation; nay, he of all others being one who ought to have been won to the worship of Jehovah by kindness, instead of being alienated by oppression; especially as the Israelites were commanded to remember that they themselves had been "strangers in Egypt" (Exo 22:21; Exo 23:9).
 
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9 Also thou shalt not oppress [03905] a stranger [01616]: for ye know [03045] the heart [05315] of a stranger [01616], seeing [03588] ye were strangers [01616] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
21 Thou shalt neither vex [03238] a stranger [01616], nor oppress [03905] him: for ye were strangers [01616] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].