Deuteronomy 15:11 New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.

2 Kings 25:12 New International Version (NIV)

¹² But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

Job 5:16 New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 9:18 New International Version (NIV)

Jeremiah 40:7 New International Version (NIV)

Gedaliah Assassinated

⁷ When all the army officers and their men who were still in the open country heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon,

Jeremiah 52:16 New International Version (NIV)

¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.