Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
Verse Concepts
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
Verse Concepts
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
Verse Concepts
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Verse Concepts
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Verse Concepts
Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
Verse Concepts
Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.
Verse Concepts
And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.
Verse Concepts
He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.
Verse Concepts
And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a sin-offering.
Verse Concepts
And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
Verse Concepts
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Verse Concepts
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
Verse Concepts
Or in your house different measures, a great and a small. But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.
Verse Concepts
And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand;
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of length » Span
It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide.
Verse Concepts
And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Verse Concepts
The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Verse Concepts
And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor;
Verse Concepts
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
Verse Concepts
And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
Verse Concepts
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of length » Furlong
Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about two miles away;
Verse Concepts
And then, two of them, on that very day, were going to a little town named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;
Verse Concepts
When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;
Verse Concepts
Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of length » Cubit
And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:
Verse Concepts
Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of length » Mile
And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of length » Fathom
And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet.
Verse Concepts
Measures » The jews often used unjust
Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
Verse Concepts
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.
Verse Concepts
Related Topics
- A Tenth Of Things
- Abominations, To God
- Accuracy
- Balances, Dishonest Use
- Balances, For Business
- Breadth
- Business Ethics
- Buying and selling
- Comparative Measures
- Deception, Forbidden By God
- Dishonesty
- Dishonesty Condemned
- Ephah [Ten Omers]
- Just Weights
- Length
- Oil On Sacrifices
- Other Volume Measures
- Right Measures
- Trade
- Trustworthiness
- Weighing
- Weights And Measures, Dry
- Weights And Measures, Laws
- Weights And Measures, Linear
- Weights And Measures, Liquid
- Balance
- Manhood
- Measurement
- Weight
- 8 more topics on Measures