Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
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The ancients
Ye have eaten
General references
Bible References
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Job 22:4
Will he reprove thee or will he enter with thee into judgment because he fears thee?
Job 34:23
For he will not lay upon man more than that which is just; that he should enter into judgment with God.
Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy slave; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
The ancients
Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, the fortune-teller and the ancient,
Ye have eaten
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of the hosts is the house of Israel and every man of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; thus they became great and rich.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Micah 2:2
And they coveted fields and stole them, and houses and took them away; so they oppressed the man and his house, even the man and his heritage.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the scant measure that is abominable?
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a certain husband of a house who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country,
General references
Leviticus 25:14
And if thou sell anything unto thy neighbour or buy anything of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.