Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
General references
Bible References
A judge
Psalm 72:2
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Jeremiah 5:28
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Luke 18:2
He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
Ephesians 5:1
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
In his
Psalm 33:14
from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
2 Chronicles 6:2
But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever."
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 66:1
Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
Acts 7:48
Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
General references
Numbers 27:6
And the LORD said to Moses,