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When therefore the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
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.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Mountains » Names of » Tabor
And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go, and draw towards mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun?
As I live, saith the king, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
And Deborah said to Barak, Arise, for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thy hand: hath not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
priests » Corrupt
When therefore the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
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.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Corrupt priests
When therefore the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
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.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Snares laid » General references to
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way in which I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not according to thy law.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
For without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Tabor » A mountain on the border of the tribe of issachar
And the border reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh, and the limits of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
As I live, saith the king, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Priests, corrupt
When therefore the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
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.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is towards you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.