47 Bible Verses about weight
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You must have honest weights and measuring devices, so you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you,
TEKEL: You've been weighed on the scales and you don't measure up.
For everyone must carry his own load.
He also told me, "Son of Man, look! I'm about to disrupt the source of bread in Jerusalem. As a result, they'll ration bread by weight while their terror continues to grow and they'll ration drinking water while their horror continues to mount!
Everything a person does seems pure in his own opinion, but the LORD weighs intentions.
The LORD hates false scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
The food that you'll be eating is to consist of portions weighing 20 shekels, to be consumed daily at regular intervals.
"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise
let my righteousness be weighed in honest scales, and God will make known my integrity.
as his offering a silver dish weighing 130 shekels and a silver bowl weighing 70 shekels (calculated according to the shekel of the sanctuary), both filled with choice flour mixed with oil for grain offering;
Jesus said, "How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law, too! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you don't even lift a finger to ease those burdens.
Huge hailstones, each weighing about a talent, fell from the sky on people, who cursed God because the plague of hail was so terrible.
This light, temporary nature of our suffering is producing for us an everlasting weight of glory, far beyond any comparison,
And the angel said, "This is evil!" So he shoved her back into the basket and snapped the round, lead cover over the opening.
You are to maintain just balances and reliable standards for weights, dry volumes, and liquid volumes. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Whenever he cut his hair he cut it at the end of every year, because it grew thick on his head, which is why he cut it his hair weighed in at 200 shekels measured by the royal standard.
Don't continue to talk proudly, and don't speak arrogantly, for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Solomon's annual revenue was 666 talents of gold,
Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!
"You are not to act unjustly in deciding a case or when measuring weight and quantity.
"Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Two or three prophets should speak, and others should weigh carefully what is said.
I signed the deed and sealed it. I called in witnesses and used scales to weigh out the silver.
"The path of the righteous is level; O Upright One, you make safe the way of justice.
He confiscated the crown of their king from his head it weighed one talent in gold and was set with precious stones and it was placed on David's head. He confiscated a great amount of war booty that had been plundered from the city,
They tie up burdens that are heavy and unbearable and lay them on people's shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to remove them.
Solomon overlaid it with 600 talents of pure gold. The gold nails weighed 50 shekels. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they'll return back your bread by weight. You'll eat but won't be satisfied.
So David paid Ornan 600 shekels weight worth in gold for the site,
Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.
Topics on Weight
Just Weights
Proverbs 11:1The LORD hates false scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes.
Weights And Measures, Dry
2 Kings 6:25until there was a great famine throughout Samaria. The siege lasted until a donkey's head cost 80 silver coins and one quarter of a unit of dove's dung cost five silver coins.
Weights And Measures, Laws
Leviticus 19:35-36"You are not to act unjustly in deciding a case or when measuring weight and quantity.
Weights And Measures, Linear
Jeremiah 52:21Each of the pillars was twelve cubits high and its circumference twelve cubits. It was hollow and about a handbreadth thick.
Weights And Measures, Liquid
Leviticus 14:10"On the eighth day, he is to take two lambs without defect, a one year old ewe lamb without defect, one third of a measure of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a meal offering, and one log of oil.
Weights Of Gold
Genesis 24:22When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel and two bracelets for her wrists, weighing 10 shekels and presented them to her.
Weights Of Other Things
Exodus 30:24500 shekels of cassia all according to the shekel of the sanctuary and a hin of olive oil.