Thematic Bible: Measures
Thematic Bible
Measures » Just weights
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Measures » Distances measured by rods and lines
He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Omer or tenth-deal (the tenth of an ephah)
"'But if he can't afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.
"On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Log
"On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
Measures » Of length » Span
It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.
There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Bath or ephah
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Homer or cor
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Measures » Of length » Furlong
And look, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.
Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
Measures » Were regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all kinds of measure and size;
Measures » Of length » Cubit
This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship will be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished."
Measures » Unjust, an abomination to God
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Cab
There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Hin
and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Measures » Of length » Mile
And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
"LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
Measures » Of length » Fathom
They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
Measures » The jews often used unjust
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Measures » Of liquids and solids » Firkin
Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jewish manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
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