Micah 6:10

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Are there still treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and dishonest measures that are detestable?

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  • Amos 3:10 : 10 "They do not know how to do what is right," declares the Lord, "storing up violence and robbery in their fortresses."
  • Amos 8:5-6 : 5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit? 6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'
  • Jer 5:26-27 : 26 Among My people are wicked men. They lie in wait like those who set traps; they set deadly snares to catch people. 27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich.
  • Ezek 45:9-9 : 9 This is what the Lord God says: Enough, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and practice justice and righteousness. Remove your exactions from my people, declares the Lord God. 10 You must have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. 11 The measurements for the ephah and the bath shall be the same: both will be one-tenth of a homer. The homer will be the standard measure. 12 The shekel is to consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels will make up a mina.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually. 8 Canaan, in whose hands are deceitful scales, loves to defraud.
  • Hab 2:5-9 : 5 Indeed, because wine betrays, and an arrogant man is restless, enlarging his appetite like Sheol and never satisfied, he gathers all the nations to himself and collects all peoples as his own. 6 Will not all these take up a taunt against him, with mocking sayings and riddles? They will say, "Woe to him who amasses what is not his! How long will this go on? And who weighs himself down with stolen goods?" 7 Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will not those who make you tremble wake up? Then you will become their plunder. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of peoples will plunder you—because of human bloodshed and violence against the land, the cities, and everyone who lives in them. 9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity! 10 You have planned disgrace for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your own life. 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wooden beam will answer it.
  • Zeph 1:9 : 9 On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, who fills their master’s house with violence and deceit.
  • Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then he said to me, 'This is the curse that is going out over the whole land: for everyone who steals will be judged according to what is written on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be judged according to what is written on the other side.' 4 'I will send it out,' declares the LORD of Hosts, 'and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will remain inside their house and consume it completely, including its timber and stones.'
  • Jas 5:1-4 : 1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
  • Lev 19:35-36 : 35 Do not use dishonest measures in judgment, whether in length, weight, or quantity. 36 Use honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 25:13-16 : 13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one. 14 Do not have two differing measures in your house, a large one and a small one. 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.
  • Josh 7:1 : 1 But the Israelites acted unfaithfully with the things designated for destruction. Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things, and the anger of the Lord burned against the Israelites.
  • 2 Kgs 5:23-24 : 23 Naaman said, 'Please take two talents.' He urged Gehazi, tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two sets of clothes, and gave them to his two servants, who carried them ahead of Gehazi. 24 When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them inside the house. Then he sent the men away, and they left.
  • Prov 10:2 : 2 Treasures gained through wickedness bring no benefit, but righteousness rescues from death.
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord, but a full and accurate weight is His delight.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Differing weights and differing measures—both are detestable to the Lord.
  • Prov 20:23 : 23 Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, and deceitful scales are not good.
  • Prov 21:6 : 6 The acquisition of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a trap of death.

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