Thematic Bible: Of men


Thematic Bible



So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

Then God spoke all these words, saying,

The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing engraved on the tablets.

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.


He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.

He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.


They in turn gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy quarried stone and timber for couplings and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin. The men did the work faithfully with foremen over them to supervise: Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites of the sons of Merari, Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites, and the Levites, all who were skillful with musical instruments.




In charge of the storehouses I appointed Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and in addition to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were considered reliable, and it was their task to distribute to their kinsmen.


Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.


So he left everything he owned in Joseph’s charge; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate.Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.




Then the commissioners and satraps began trying to find a ground of accusation against Daniel in regard to government affairs; but they could find no ground of accusation or evidence of corruption, inasmuch as he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption was to be found in him.


Dead flies make a perfumer’s oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor.


Like a dog that returns to its vomit
Is a fool who repeats his folly.

This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of those after them who approve their words. Selah.

The mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge,
But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.


And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.


But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.





Even when the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking and he demonstrates to everyone that he is a fool.