Thematic Bible: Duplicity


Thematic Bible




Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord; Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitBottle, UsesenvoyCraftinessWineskins And Vatsimprovement


And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death. Verse ConceptsCraftinessPlottingArresting ChristChrist Would Be Killed


And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck: Verse ConceptsHairsCovering NakednessShepherds, As OccupationsCraftinessAnimal SkinsSmoothnessSmooth

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. Verse ConceptsGoadsShrewdnessCraftiness

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death: Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadChief priestsJudaismScribesTeachers Of The LawCraftinessTwo DaysActing In SecretArresting ChristChrist Would Be KilledOpposition To Christ From Scribes

And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead: Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

So changing his behaviour before them, he made it seem as if he was off his head, hammering on the doors of the town, and letting the water from his mouth go down his chin. Verse ConceptsdiseasesBeardsSalivaPretendingWriting On Objects

And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler. Verse ConceptsGovernorsHope, Nature OfPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristHuman Authority, Nature OfSnares Laid For ChristWatching To EntrapHanding Over ChristSpyingPretendingBeware Of Your Speech

Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal. Verse ConceptsFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other Gods

So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death. Verse ConceptsInvestigatingPreparing For ActionAttempting To Kill Specific People


They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation. Verse ConceptsGenerationsSin, Nature OfCharacter Of WickedEvil GenerationsCrookednessIsrael As Sons Of GodTwisted Ways

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: Verse ConceptsCrookednessPathways Of SinDeviousnessTwisted WaysPeople Going AstrayPathsfootsteps

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace. Verse ConceptsWay, TheCrookednessPaths Of The WickedPathways Of SinSpiritual IgnoranceUnrestTwistingNo PeacePaths

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