Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
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Bible References
The cause
Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times; the difficult dispute they would bring to Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would judge.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,
Deuteronomy 17:8
“If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.
1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory ofkings is to search out a matter.
But the glory of
Proverbs 29:7 The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor,
The wicked does not understand suchconcern.
The wicked does not understand such
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Proverbs 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously,
Anddefend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
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