Verse 10

Are not yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abhominable?

Referenced Verses

  • Amos 3:10 : 10 For they know not to do right, sayth the Lorde, they store vp violence and robberie in their palaces.
  • Amos 8:5-6 : 5 Saying, When will the new moneth be gone, that we may sell corne? & the Sabbath, that we may set foorth wheate, and make the Epha small, & the sicle great, & falsifie the wayghtes by deceite? 6 That we may bie the poore for siluer, and the needy for shoes, yea and sell the refuse of the wheate?
  • Jer 5:26-27 : 26 For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them. 27 And like as a nette is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that which they haue gotten with falshood and deceipt: Hereof commeth their great substaunce and riches,
  • Ezek 45:9-9 : 9 Thus saith the Lorde God, Let it suffise you O ye princes of Israel: leaue of crueltie and oppression, and execute iudgement and iustice: take away your exactions from my people, saith the lord God. 10 Ye shall haue a true Ballaunce, a true Ephah, and a true Bath. 11 The Ephah and the Bath shalbe alyke: one Bath shall containe the tenth parte of an Homer, and an Ephah the tenth part of an Homer: the equalitie thereof shalbe after the Homer. 12 The Sicle maketh twentie Gerrahs: & twentie Sicles, and twentie & fiue, and fifteene Sicles make a Maneh.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 He is Chanaan, the ballaunces of deceipt are in his hande, he loueth to oppresse. 8 And Ephraim hath sayde, Tushe I am riche, I haue good enough: in all my workes shall not one iniquitie be founde wherin I haue offended.
  • Hab 2:5-9 : 5 Yea in deede the proude man is as he that transgresseth by wine, therfore shall he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, & is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all nations, and heapeth vnto him all people. 6 Shall not all these take vp a parable against him? and a taunting prouerbe against him, and say: Wo he that increaseth that which is not his? how long? and he that ladeth him selfe with thicke clay? 7 Shall they not rise vp sodenly that shall byte thee? and awake that shall stirre thee, & thou shalt be their pray? 8 Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnaunt of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the lande, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin. 9 Wo he that coueteth an euyll couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euyll. 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thyne owne house, by destroying many people, & hast sinned against thyne owne soule. 11 For the stone shall crye out of the wal, and the beame out of the timber shall aunswere it.
  • Zeph 1:9 : 9 In the same day also will I visite all those that leape ouer the thresholde so proudly, whiche fill their lordes house with robberie and falshood.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then saide he vnto me, This is the curse that goeth foorth ouer the whole earth: for al theeues shalbe iudged after this booke, & al pariured persons shalbe iudged according to the same. 4 And I wil bring it foorth saith the lord of hoastes, so that it shall enter into the house of the theefe, and into the house of him that falsely sweareth by my name: and shall remayne in his house, and consume it, with the timber & stones therof.
  • Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten: 3 Your golde and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse agaynst you, and shall eate your fleshe as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure together in your last dayes. 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth.
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 35 Ye shall do no vnrighteousnesse in iudgement, in metyarde, in wayght, or in measure. 36 True balaunces, true wayghtes, a true Epha, and a true Hin shal ye haue: I am the Lorde your GOD whiche brought you out of the lande of Egypt.
  • Deut 25:13-16 : 13 Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of wayghtes, a great and a small: 14 Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt haue a right and iust waight, and a perfect and a iust measure shalt thou haue: that thy dayes may be lengthed in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee. 16 For all that do such thynges, and all that do vnright, are abhomination vnto the Lorde thy God.
  • Josh 7:1 : 1 But yet the chyldren of Israel trespassed in ye forbydden thyng: for Achan ye sonne of Charmi, the sonne of Zabdi, ye sonne of Zareth, of the tribe of Iuda, toke of the forbydden thyng: And the wrath of the Lorde waxed hot against the chyldren of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 5:23-24 : 23 And Naaman said: With a good will, take two talentes: And he constrained him, & bounde two talentes of siluer in two bagges, with two chaunge of garmentes, and laide them vpon two of his seruauntes, to beare them before him. 24 And when he came to the lower place, he toke them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house, and he let the men go, and they departed.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profite nothing: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 A false ballaunce is an abomination vnto the Lorde: but a true wayght pleaseth him.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Two maner of wayghtes or two maner of measures, both these are abhomination vnto the Lorde.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Diuers wayghtes are an abhomination vnto the Lord, and a false balaunce is not good.
  • Prov 21:6 : 6 To hoorde vp riches with a deceiptfull tongue, is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death.