1 Samuel 8:3

World English Bible (2000)

His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

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  • Deut 16:19 : 19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
  • Exod 23:8 : 8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
  • Ps 26:10 : 10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.
  • Eccl 2:19 : 19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--
  • Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn't your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him. 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • 2 Sam 15:4 : 4 Absalom said moreover, "Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!"
  • 1 Kgs 12:6-9 : 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, "What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?" 7 They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. 9 He said to them, "What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?'" 10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall tell this people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist. 11 Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'"
  • 2 Kgs 21:1-3 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

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    1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

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    4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;

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    17 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; [but] they didn't do so.

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    23 He said to them, "Why do you do such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

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    19 But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

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    23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

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    3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

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    19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

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    33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

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    3 Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.

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    9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

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    23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

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    12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.

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    23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

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    8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

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    22 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn't depart from them;

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    56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;

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    10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

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    30 and his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,

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    4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

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    28 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn [Joel], and the second Abijah.

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    22 and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk in the way of Yahweh.

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    7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

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    17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

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    3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

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