Job 29:16 Cross References - TKJU

¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: And the cause which I did not know I searched out.

²⁶ And they judged the people at all times: The hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

¹⁴ then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked among you;

⁸ If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates: Then you shall arise, and get you up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose; ⁹ and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment: ¹⁰ And you shall do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall show you; and you shall observe to do according to all that they inform you:

¹⁶ Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman said, "O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. ¹⁸ And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: And we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. ¹⁹ And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. ²⁰ And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. ²¹ And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: But when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. ²² And the other woman said, "No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. And this said, "No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king. ²³ Then said the king, The one said, "This is my son that lives, and your son is the dead: And the other said, "No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living. ²⁴ And the king said, "Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. ²⁶ Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her bowels yearned on her son, and she said, "O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, "Let it be neither my nor yours, but divide it. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, "Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: She is its mother. ²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: For they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

⁷ And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: For she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth hide themselves together.

¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb);

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: But the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

⁷ The righteous considers the cause of the poor: But the wicked does not care to know it.

¹ You therefore be followers of God, as dear children;

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.