[[Exod-22]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Exod-21]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Exod-23]] --- ### If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A conditional prophecy predicting that the mistreatment of widows and orphans will lead to a divine military judgment where the oppressors themselves will be killed in war, leaving their own families destitute. *Historical context*: Theologians and biblical prophets (such as Ezekiel in [[Ezek-22#v7|Ezekiel 22:7]]-31) cite the Babylonian siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE as the historical fulfillment of this judgment. Ezekiel explicitly identifies the oppression of the fatherless and the widow as the cause for God pouring out His wrath and consuming the people with the 'sword.' *Related to*: ### You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The mandate to consecrate the firstborn son to God serves as a realization of God's earlier claim on the firstborn of Israel after the Passover event. *Historical context*: This is realized in the New Testament when Mary and Joseph present Jesus in the temple ([[Luke-02#v22|Luke 2:22]]-23), explicitly citing the Law of the Lord regarding the firstborn as being fulfilled by this act. Christian theology further views this as a typological fulfillment of Jesus as the 'Firstborn' over all creation and the firstborn from the dead ([[Col-01#v15|Colossians 1:15]], 18). *Related to*: [[Exod-13#v1|Exodus 13:1]]-2 --- #ai_prophecy