Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
And he struck Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he the ones to put to death, and with one full line the ones to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
And he brought me there, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring rod; and he stood in the gate.
And the measuring line shall yet go straight over to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, or weight, or quantity.
You shall not have in your house differing measures, a great and a small. But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
Measures » Of length » Span
Foursquare it shall be, and doubled; a span shall be the length of it, and a span shall be the breadth of it.
And there went a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
The ephah and the bath shall be the same measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure of it shall be according to the homer.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer the tenth part of a bath from a cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer:
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And you shall make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and you shall make a golden molding in the border of it round about.
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Measures » Of length » Furlong
And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
To make the weight for the wind; and he apportions the waters by measure.
Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
Both for the showbread, and for the fine flour for meal offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is mixed with all kinds of measures and sizes;
Measures » Of length » Cubit
And this is the fashion which you shall make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shall you make for the ark, and within a cubit shall you finish it above; and the door of the ark shall you set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shall you make it.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in just measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And with the one lamb a tenth measure of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten olive oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured out heaven with the span, and known the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Measures » Of length » Mile
And whosoever shall compel you to go a mile, go with him two.
Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore sheol has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that exults, shall descend into it.
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Measures » Of length » Fathom
And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
Measures » The jews often used unjust
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is abominable?
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
And there were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.
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