Zechariah 5:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

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  • Lev 14:34-45 : 34 When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage, 35 Then let the owner of the house come and say to the priest, It seems to me that there is a sort of leper's disease in the house. 36 And the priest will give orders for everything to be taken out of the house, before he goes in to see the disease, so that the things in the house may not become unclean; and then the priest is to go in to see the house; 37 And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall; 38 Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days: 39 And the priest is to come again on the seventh day and have a look and see if the marks on the walls of the house are increased in size; 40 Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town: 41 And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town: 42 And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house. 43 And if the disease comes out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and after the walls have been rubbed and the new paste put on, 44 Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean. 45 And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.
  • Job 18:15 : 15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
  • Jas 5:2-3 : 2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing. 3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
  • Job 20:26 : 26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.
  • Deut 7:26 : 26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

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    3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

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    10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

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  • 2 Chr 7:20-21
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    20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

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    5 But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.

  • Ezek 5:4
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  • Amos 6:11
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    11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

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    5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

  • Jer 5:14
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    14 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.

  • Jer 5:11
    75%

    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Isa 5:9
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    9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

  • Amos 2:5
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    5 And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.

  • Amos 3:15
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    15 And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 7:24
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    24 For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;

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    5 And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.

  • Lev 14:45
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    45 And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

  • Hag 1:8-9
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    8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

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  • Zeph 1:9
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  • Jer 26:6
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    7 The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes.

  • Jer 7:14
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    24 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah;

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  • 1 Kgs 9:7
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    7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

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    11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;

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    21 And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.

  • Joel 3:5
    71%

    5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

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    6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 12:14
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    8 If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

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