Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures.
Weights » Must be just
A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.
Many and different weights are an abomination to Jehovah and a false balance is not good.
Honest scales and balances are from Jehovah. He sets the standard for the weights of the bag.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid. Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag. Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.
Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
Weights » Value of money estimated according to
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.
I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son. I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.
When we stopped for the night, we each found in our grain sacks the exact amount we had paid. We have brought that money back.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
He removed the crown of their god Milcom from off the head of their king. The crown was made of seventy-five pounds of gold. There was a valuable jewel on it. David put the jewel on his own crown. He also carried off everything else of value.
There fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent (45 to 100 pounds). Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague was exceeding great.
Weights » All metals were given by
David specified the weight of gold to be used for each of the utensils for worship,
The lamp stand and all the utensils were made out of seventy-five pounds of pure gold.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
Some of the heads of families gave to the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.
Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
let God weigh me on honest scales and he will know that I am blameless.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Do not have differing weights, a large and a small, in your bag. Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
Do not be corrupt when administering justice concerning length, weight, or measuring liquid. Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
Some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave to the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priests' robes. Some of the heads of families gave to the store for the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand, two hundred pounds of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
From time to time, he used to cut his hair because it became heavy for him. When he cut the hair on his head and weighed it, it weighed five pounds according to the king's standard.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a fifth of an ounce and two gold bracelets weighing four ounces.
Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
Verse Concepts
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and twelve pounds of cassia, according to the official standard. Add one gallon of olive oil,
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?
Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
When he gave the wind its force and measured the water in the sea,
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