Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

The great

Bible References

Do

Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
Jeremiah 3:5
Will he reserve his anger forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things that you could.
Ezekiel 22:6
Behold, the princes of Israel, each one in you used his power to shed blood.

The prince

Micah 3:11
Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for everyone from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest everyone deals falsely.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Hosea 4:18
Their drink is sour: they have committed harlotry continually: her rulers love shame more than glory.
Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Matthew 26:15
And said unto them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

The great

1 Kings 21:9
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:

Wrap

Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her bloodshed, and shall no more cover her slain.
Luke 12:1
In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, so much that they tread one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

General references

Exodus 20:15
You shall not steal.
Leviticus 25:14
And if you sell anything unto your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:
Deuteronomy 27:25
Cursed be he that takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 24:2
For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
Isaiah 59:14
And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Jeremiah 11:9
And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.
Acts 23:14
And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
Acts 24:9
And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.