1 Samuel 8:3

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But his sons did not follow his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.

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  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be shaken.
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
  • Exod 23:8 : 8 “You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.
  • Ps 26:10 : 10 who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.
  • Eccl 2:19 : 19 Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile!
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–
  • Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him. 16 He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says,‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’ 17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
  • 2 Sam 15:4 : 4 Absalom would then say,“If only they would make me a judge in the land! Then everyone who had a judicial complaint could come to me and I would make sure he receives a just settlement.”
  • 1 Kgs 12:6-9 : 6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,“How do you advise me to answer these people?” 7 They said to him,“Today if you will be a servant to these people and grant their request, speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. 9 He asked them,“How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me,‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him,“Say this to these people who have said to you,‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.’ Say this to them:‘I am a lot harsher than my father! 11 My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’”
  • 2 Kgs 21:1-3 : 1 Manasseh’s Reign over Judah Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hephzibah. 2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites. 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

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    17But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.

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    23So he said to them,“Why do you do these things, these evil things which I hear about from all these people?

    24No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.

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    23Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

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    28That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

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    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

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    19You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous.

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    33I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did.

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    3Yet he persisted in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them.

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    9Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.

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    23They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

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    12But the sons of Eli were wicked men. They did not acknowledge the LORD’s authority.

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    11He said,“Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.

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    8“You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.

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    22The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam and did not repudiate them.

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    56God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.

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    10who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.

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    30If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,

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    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

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    30His firstborn son was Abdon, followed by Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,

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    4For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

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    6In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

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    28The sons of Samuel:Joel the firstborn and Abijah the second oldest.

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    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

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    22He abandoned the LORD God of his ancestors and did not follow the LORD’s instructions.

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    7The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

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    17The sin of these young men was very great in the LORD’s sight, for they treated the LORD’s offering with contempt.

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    3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

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    5His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

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    6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

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    14He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

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    11Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the LORD and say,“The LORD is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!”