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LEVITICUS 6:2-7Verses in the Bible

  • 2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
    Leviticus 6:2 Meaning
  • 3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
    Leviticus 6:3 Meaning
  • 4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
    Leviticus 6:4 Meaning
  • 5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
    Leviticus 6:5 Meaning
  • 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
    Leviticus 6:6 Meaning
  • 7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
    Leviticus 6:7 Meaning

LEVITICUS 19:13,35,36Verses in the Bible

  • 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
    Leviticus 19:13 Meaning
  • 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
    Leviticus 19:36 Meaning

DEUTERONOMY 25:13-16Verses in the Bible

  • 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
    Deuteronomy 25:13 Meaning
  • 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
    Deuteronomy 25:14 Meaning
  • 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
    Deuteronomy 25:15 Meaning
  • 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
    Deuteronomy 25:16 Meaning

JOB 24:2-11Verses in the Bible

  • 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
    Job 24:2 Meaning
  • 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
    Job 24:3 Meaning
  • 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
    Job 24:4 Meaning
  • 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
    Job 24:5 Meaning
  • 6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
    Job 24:6 Meaning
  • 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
    Job 24:7 Meaning
  • 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
    Job 24:8 Meaning
  • 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
    Job 24:9 Meaning
  • 10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
    Job 24:10 Meaning
  • 11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
    Job 24:11 Meaning

PSALM 37:21In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

PSALM 50:18In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

PSALM 62:10In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

PROVERBS 3:27,28Verses in the Bible

  • 27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
    Proverbs 3:27 Meaning
  • 28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
    Proverbs 3:28 Meaning

PROVERBS 11:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

PROVERBS 20:10,14,17,23Verses in the Bible

  • 10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
    Proverbs 20:10 Meaning
  • 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
    Proverbs 20:14 Meaning
  • 17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
    Proverbs 20:17 Meaning

ISAIAH 32:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

JEREMIAH 7:8-10Verses in the Bible

  • 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
    Jeremiah 7:8 Meaning
  • 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
    Jeremiah 7:9 Meaning
  • 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
    Jeremiah 7:10 Meaning

JEREMIAH 9:4-6,8Verses in the Bible

  • 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
    Jeremiah 9:4 Meaning
  • 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
    Jeremiah 9:5 Meaning
  • 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
    Jeremiah 9:6 Meaning
  • 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
    Jeremiah 9:8 Meaning

JEREMIAH 22:13In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

EZEKIEL 22:29In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

HOSEA 4:1,2Verses in the Bible

  • 1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
    Hosea 4:1 Meaning
  • 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
    Hosea 4:2 Meaning

HOSEA 12:7In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

AMOS 3:10In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

AMOS 8:5In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

MICAH 6:10,11Verses in the Bible

  • 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
    Micah 6:10 Meaning
  • 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
    Micah 6:11 Meaning

NAHUM 3:1In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

ZEPHANIAH 1:9In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

ZECHARIAH 5:3,4Verses in the Bible

  • 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
    Zechariah 5:3 Meaning
  • 4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
    Zechariah 5:4 Meaning

LUKE 16:1-8Verses in the Bible

  • 1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
    Luke 16:1 Meaning
  • 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
    Luke 16:2 Meaning
  • 3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
    Luke 16:3 Meaning
  • 4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
    Luke 16:4 Meaning
  • 5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
    Luke 16:5 Meaning
  • 6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
    Luke 16:6 Meaning
  • 7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
    Luke 16:7 Meaning
  • 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
    Luke 16:8 Meaning

1 THESSALONIANS 4:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

JAMES 5:4In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Instances of Dishonesty



• Abimelech's Servants Confiscate a Well

GENESIS 21:25In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

GENESIS 26:15-22Verses in the Bible

  • 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
    Genesis 26:15 Meaning
  • 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
    Genesis 26:16 Meaning
  • 17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
    Genesis 26:17 Meaning
  • 18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
    Genesis 26:18 Meaning
  • 19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
    Genesis 26:19 Meaning
  • 20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
    Genesis 26:20 Meaning
  • 21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
    Genesis 26:21 Meaning
  • 22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
    Genesis 26:22 Meaning

• Jacob Obtains His Brother's Birthright by an Unjust Advantage

GENESIS 25:29-33Verses in the Bible

  • 29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
    Genesis 25:29 Meaning
  • 30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
    Genesis 25:30 Meaning
  • 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
    Genesis 25:31 Meaning
  • 32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
    Genesis 25:32 Meaning
  • 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
    Genesis 25:33 Meaning

• Jacob Steals His Father's Blessing

GENESIS 27:6-29Verses in the Bible

  • 6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
    Genesis 27:6 Meaning
  • 7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
    Genesis 27:7 Meaning
  • 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
    Genesis 27:8 Meaning
  • 9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
    Genesis 27:9 Meaning
  • 10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
    Genesis 27:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
    Genesis 27:11 Meaning
  • 12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
    Genesis 27:12 Meaning
  • 13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
    Genesis 27:13 Meaning
  • 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
    Genesis 27:14 Meaning
  • 15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
    Genesis 27:15 Meaning
  • 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
    Genesis 27:16 Meaning
  • 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
    Genesis 27:17 Meaning
  • 18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
    Genesis 27:18 Meaning
  • 19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
    Genesis 27:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.
    Genesis 27:20 Meaning
  • 21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
    Genesis 27:21 Meaning
  • 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
    Genesis 27:22 Meaning
  • 23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
    Genesis 27:23 Meaning
  • 24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
    Genesis 27:24 Meaning
  • 25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
    Genesis 27:25 Meaning
  • 26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
    Genesis 27:26 Meaning
  • 27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed:
    Genesis 27:27 Meaning
  • 28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
    Genesis 27:28 Meaning
  • 29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
    Genesis 27:29 Meaning

• Jacob Gains from Laban's Flocks by Skillful Manipulation

GENESIS 30:31-43Verses in the Bible

  • 31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
    Genesis 30:31 Meaning
  • 32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
    Genesis 30:32 Meaning
  • 33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
    Genesis 30:33 Meaning
  • 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
    Genesis 30:34 Meaning
  • 35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
    Genesis 30:35 Meaning
  • 36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
    Genesis 30:36 Meaning
  • 37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
    Genesis 30:37 Meaning
  • 38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
    Genesis 30:38 Meaning
  • 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
    Genesis 30:39 Meaning
  • 40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
    Genesis 30:40 Meaning
  • 41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
    Genesis 30:41 Meaning
  • 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
    Genesis 30:42 Meaning
  • 43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
    Genesis 30:43 Meaning

• Rebekah's Craftiness in Jacob's Behalf

GENESIS 27:6-17Verses in the Bible

  • 6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
    Genesis 27:6 Meaning
  • 7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
    Genesis 27:7 Meaning
  • 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
    Genesis 27:8 Meaning
  • 9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
    Genesis 27:9 Meaning
  • 10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
    Genesis 27:10 Meaning
  • 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
    Genesis 27:11 Meaning
  • 12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
    Genesis 27:12 Meaning
  • 13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
    Genesis 27:13 Meaning
  • 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
    Genesis 27:14 Meaning
  • 15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
    Genesis 27:15 Meaning
  • 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
    Genesis 27:16 Meaning
  • 17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
    Genesis 27:17 Meaning

• Laban's Treatment of Jacob

GENESIS 29:21-30Verses in the Bible

  • 21 And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
    Genesis 29:21 Meaning
  • 22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
    Genesis 29:22 Meaning
  • 23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
    Genesis 29:23 Meaning
  • 24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
    Genesis 29:24 Meaning
  • 25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
    Genesis 29:25 Meaning
  • 26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
    Genesis 29:26 Meaning
  • 27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
    Genesis 29:27 Meaning
  • 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
    Genesis 29:28 Meaning
  • 29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
    Genesis 29:29 Meaning
  • 30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
    Genesis 29:30 Meaning

GENESIS 31:36-42Verses in the Bible

  • 36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
    Genesis 31:36 Meaning
  • 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
    Genesis 31:37 Meaning
  • 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
    Genesis 31:38 Meaning
  • 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
    Genesis 31:39 Meaning
  • 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
    Genesis 31:40 Meaning
  • 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
    Genesis 31:41 Meaning
  • 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
    Genesis 31:42 Meaning

• Rachel Steals the Household Gods

GENESIS 31:19In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

• Simeon and Levi Deceive the Shechemites

GENESIS 34:15-31Verses in the Bible

  • 15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
    Genesis 34:15 Meaning
  • 16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
    Genesis 34:16 Meaning
  • 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
    Genesis 34:17 Meaning
  • 18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
    Genesis 34:18 Meaning
  • 19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
    Genesis 34:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
    Genesis 34:20 Meaning
  • 21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
    Genesis 34:21 Meaning
  • 22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
    Genesis 34:22 Meaning
  • 23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
    Genesis 34:23 Meaning
  • 24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
    Genesis 34:24 Meaning
  • 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
    Genesis 34:25 Meaning
  • 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
    Genesis 34:26 Meaning
  • 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
    Genesis 34:27 Meaning
  • 28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
    Genesis 34:28 Meaning
  • 29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
    Genesis 34:29 Meaning
  • 30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
    Genesis 34:30 Meaning
  • 31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
    Genesis 34:31 Meaning

• Achan Hides the Wedge of Gold and the Babylonian Garment

JOSHUA 7:11-26Verses in the Bible

  • 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
    Joshua 7:11 Meaning
  • 12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
    Joshua 7:12 Meaning
  • 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
    Joshua 7:13 Meaning
  • 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.
    Joshua 7:14 Meaning
  • 15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
    Joshua 7:15 Meaning
  • 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
    Joshua 7:16 Meaning
  • 17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
    Joshua 7:17 Meaning
  • 18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
    Joshua 7:18 Meaning
  • 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
    Joshua 7:19 Meaning
  • 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
    Joshua 7:20 Meaning
  • 21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
    Joshua 7:21 Meaning
  • 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
    Joshua 7:22 Meaning
  • 23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord.
    Joshua 7:23 Meaning
  • 24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
    Joshua 7:24 Meaning
  • 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
    Joshua 7:25 Meaning
  • 26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
    Joshua 7:26 Meaning

• Micah Steals One-Thousand One-Hundred Pieces of Silver

JUDGES 17:2In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my son.

• Micah's Priest Steals His Images

JUDGES 18:14-21Verses in the Bible

  • 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
    Judges 18:14 Meaning
  • 15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
    Judges 18:15 Meaning
  • 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
    Judges 18:16 Meaning
  • 17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
    Judges 18:17 Meaning
  • 18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
    Judges 18:18 Meaning
  • 19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
    Judges 18:19 Meaning
  • 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
    Judges 18:20 Meaning
  • 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
    Judges 18:21 Meaning

• Joab's Guile in Securing Absalom's Return

2 SAMUEL 14:2-20Verses in the Bible

  • 2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
    2 Samuel 14:2 Meaning
  • 3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
    2 Samuel 14:3 Meaning
  • 4 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
    2 Samuel 14:4 Meaning
  • 5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
    2 Samuel 14:5 Meaning
  • 6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
    2 Samuel 14:6 Meaning
  • 7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
    2 Samuel 14:7 Meaning
  • 8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
    2 Samuel 14:8 Meaning
  • 9 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
    2 Samuel 14:9 Meaning
  • 10 And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
    2 Samuel 14:10 Meaning
  • 11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the Lord thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
    2 Samuel 14:11 Meaning
  • 12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
    2 Samuel 14:12 Meaning
  • 13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
    2 Samuel 14:13 Meaning
  • 14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
    2 Samuel 14:14 Meaning
  • 15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
    2 Samuel 14:15 Meaning
  • 16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
    2 Samuel 14:16 Meaning
  • 17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee.
    2 Samuel 14:17 Meaning
  • 18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
    2 Samuel 14:18 Meaning
  • 19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
    2 Samuel 14:19 Meaning
  • 20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
    2 Samuel 14:20 Meaning

• Ahab Confiscates Naboth's Vineyard

1 KINGS 21:2-16Verses in the Bible

  • 2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
    1 Kings 21:2 Meaning
  • 3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.
    1 Kings 21:3 Meaning
  • 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
    1 Kings 21:4 Meaning
  • 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
    1 Kings 21:5 Meaning
  • 6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
    1 Kings 21:6 Meaning
  • 7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
    1 Kings 21:7 Meaning
  • 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
    1 Kings 21:8 Meaning
  • 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
    1 Kings 21:9 Meaning
  • 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
    1 Kings 21:10 Meaning
  • 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
    1 Kings 21:11 Meaning
  • 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
    1 Kings 21:12 Meaning
  • 13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
    1 Kings 21:13 Meaning
  • 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
    1 Kings 21:14 Meaning
  • 15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
    1 Kings 21:15 Meaning
  • 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
    1 Kings 21:16 Meaning

• Judas' Hypocritical Sympathy for the Poor

JOHN 12:6In the Bible Verse Meaning

  • 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

• See Diplomacy

• See Hypocrisy

• See Injustice

• See Treason

Sources

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