Bible Cross References
a father
Job 31:18
(when from my youth, as a father I have raised him, and from my mother's womb I guided her);
Esther 2:7
And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. And the young woman was of a beautiful figure and good appearance. At the death of her father and mother Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.
Psalm 68:5
In His holy dwelling God is a father to the fatherless, and a judge for the widows.
Ephesians 5:1
Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
the cause
Exodus 18:26
And they judged the people at all times; the hard matters they brought to Moses, but they judged every small matter themselves.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire, search out, and ask thoroughly. And if it is indeed true and the matter is firmly established that such an abomination has been done among you,
Deuteronomy 17:8-10
8
If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between dispute and dispute, or between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God chooses.
9
And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is there in those days, and inquire; and they shall declare to you the judgment of the case.
10
You shall do according to the mouth of the word which they declare to you in that place which Jehovah chooses. And you shall take heed to do according to all that they instruct you.
1 Kings 3:16-28
16
Now two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him.
17
And one woman said, O my lord, this woman and I are dwelling in the same house; and I gave birth while she was in the house.
18
Then it happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we were together; no one was with us in the house, except the two of us in the house.
19
And this woman's son died in the night, because she had lain on him.
20
So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21
And when I arose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead. But when I had examined him in the morning, behold, he was not my son whom I had borne.
22
And the other woman said, No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son. And the first woman said, No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
23
And the king said, The one says, This is my son, who lives, and your son is the dead one; and the other says, No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.
24
And the king said, Bring me a sword. So they brought a sword before the king.
25
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the other.
26
Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for her womb yearned for her son; and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and do not put him to death! But the other said, Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.
27
So the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not put him to death; she is his mother.
28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered, and they feared his presence; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice.
Proverbs 25:2
The glory of God is to conceal a thing; but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considers the plea of the poor, but the wicked has no discernment to know it.