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
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
Job 34:23
For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
Psalm 143:2
Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
The ancients
Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,
Ye have eaten
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
Job 24:2
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
Micah 2:2
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Matthew 21:33
"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
General references
Leviticus 25:14
"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.