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 them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
And the city lieth 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 thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if he be 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 he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled 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 being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
And there went out 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 an homer shall yield an ephah.
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: 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 winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
Measures » Of length » Cubit
And this is the fashion which thou shalt 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 shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou 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 fulness of Christ:
Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Divers weights, and divers 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 an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended 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 thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
LORD, make me to know mine 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 scant measure that is abominable?
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
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