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
Does he reprove you because of your reverence [or] enter into judgment with you?
Job 34:23
Indeed, he has not yet appointed [a time] for man to go to God in the judgment.
Psalm 143:2
And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.
The ancients
Isaiah 3:2
mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder,
Ye have eaten
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the man of Judah [is] the plantation of his delight. [And] he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!
Job 24:2
They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].
Jeremiah 5:27
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize [them], and houses, and they take [them] away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance.
Micah 6:10
Is there any longer a man [in] the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity [which is] accursed?
Matthew 21:33
"Listen to another parable: There was a man--a master of a house--who planted a vineyard, and put a fence [around] it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey.
General references
Leviticus 25:14
And when you sell something to your fellow citizen or [you] buy from your neighbor's hand, you must not oppress {one another}.