Genesis 45:8

8So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and aruler over all the land of Egypt.

Judges 17:11

11And the Levite bwas content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

Judges 18:19

19And they said to him, “Keep quiet; cput your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us da father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”

2 Kings 6:21

21As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, e“My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”

2 Kings 8:8-9

8the king said to fHazael, gTake a present with you and go to meet the man of God, hand inquire of the Lord through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’” 9So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camelsloads. When he came and stood before him, he said, i“Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”

2 Kings 13:14

The Death of Elisha

14Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, j“My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Job 29:16

16I was a father to the needy,
and I searched out kthe cause of him whom I did not know.

Isaiah 22:21

21and lI will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be ma father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
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