Verse 16

I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous considreth the cause of the poore, but the vngodly regardeth no vnderstondynge.
  • Esth 2:7 : 7 and he norished Hadassa (that is Hester) his vncles danghter: for she had nether father ner mother, and she was a fayre and beutyfull damsell. And whan hir father and mother dyed, Mardocheus receaued her as his awne daughter.
  • Job 31:18 : 18 (for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.)
  • Ps 68:5 : 5 He is a father of ye fatherlesse, he is a defender of widdowes: eue God in his holy habitacio.
  • Prov 25:2 : 2 It is the honor of God to kepe a thinge secrete, but ye kinges honor is to search out a thinge.
  • Job 24:4 : 4 that thrust the poore out of the waye, & oppresse the symple of the worlde together.
  • Exod 18:26 : 26 that they might allwaye iudge the people. As for soch causes as were herde, they brought them vnto Moses, and iudged the small matters them selues.
  • Deut 13:14 : 14 Then shalt thou seke, make search, and enquere diligently. And yf it be founde of a trueth, that it is so in dede, yt soch abhominacion is wroughte amonge you,
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 Yf a matter be to harde for the in iudgmet betwixte bloude and bloude, betwixte plee and plee, betwixte stroke and stroke, and yf there be matters of stryfe within thy gates then shalt thou ryse, and go vp vnto ye place that ye LORDE thy God hath chosen: 9 and shalt come to the prestes the Leuites, & to the iudge which shalbe at that tyme, and shalt axe. They shal shewe the how to iudge, 10 and thou shalt do therafter, as they saye vnto the, in ye place which the LORDE hath chosen: and thou shalt take hede that thou do acordinge vnto all yt they teach the.
  • 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 At the same tyme came there two harlottes vnto ye kynge, and stode before him. 17 And the one woman sayde: Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwelt in one house, and I was delyuered of a childe in the house with her: 18 & on the thirde daye after that I was delyuered, she was delyuered of a childe also. And we were together, so yt there was no straunger in ye house, but we two: 19 & this womans sonne died in the nighte (for she smoored him in the slepe) 20 and she rose vp in the nighte, and toke my sonne fro my syde (where thy handmayde slepte,) and layed it in hir arme, and hir deed sonne layed she in myne arme. 21 And whan I rose vp in the mornynge to geue my sonne sucke, beholde, he was deed. But in the mornynge I loked well, and beholde, it was not my sonne, whom I had borne. 22 The other woman sayde: Not so, my sonne lyueth, and thy sonne is deed. But she sayde: Not so, thy sonne is deed, and my sonne liueth. And thus spake they before the kynge. 23 And the kynge sayde: This woma saieth: my sonne lyueth and thy sonne is deed: Yonder woman sayeth: Not so, thy sonne is deed, & my sonne lyueth. 24 And the kynge saide: Fetch me a swerde. And whan the swerde was brought before the kynge, 25 the kynge sayde: Parte the lyuynge childe in two partes, and geue this woman the one halfe, and yonder woman the other halfe. 26 Then sayde the woman whose sonne lyued, vnto ye kinge: (for hir motherly hert was kyndled with pite ouer hir sonne) Oh my lorde, geue hir the childe alyue, and kyll it not. But the other sayde: Let it nether be myne ner thine, but let it be parted. 27 Then answered the kynge, and sayde: Geue this woman the lyuynge childe, and slaye it not, for she is his mother. 28 And all Israel herde of this iudgment that the kynge had geuen: and they feared the kynge, for they sawe that ye wysdome of God was in him to kepe iudgmet.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Be ye the folowers therfore of God as deare children,
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure deuocion and vndefiled before God the father, is this: to visit the frendlesse and widdowes in their aduersite, and to kepe him selfe vnspotted of the worlde.