Thematic Bible: Measures


Thematic Bible





Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt. Verse ConceptsBalances, For BusinessTrustworthinessBusiness EthicsJust WeightsWeighingThe Lord Is GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptRight Measuresbalanceweight





He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him. Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersLengthTaxationTributesDividing Into Three GroupsThose Subjected To People

And the city lies foursquare. The length is as large as the width. He measured the city with the reed, fourteen hundred miles. The length and the width and the height of it are equal. Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthSquaresCubesEleven To Nineteen ThousandCity SquaresMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandNew JerusalemNervousnessoutreachmeasurement

He brought me closer. I saw a man who looked like he was covered with bronze. The man was holding a linen tape measure and a measuring stick, and he stood in a gateway. Verse ConceptsBronzeMeasuring RodLinenWeights And Measures, LinearStanding In The GatewayThings Like Bronze

A measuring line will stretch from there straight to the Hill of Gareb, and then it will turn to Goah. Verse ConceptsMeasuring Rod

If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin. Verse ConceptsFooddovesFrankincenseIncenseOilPigeonsWeights And Measures, DryOil On SacrificesFragranceA Tenth Of ThingsBeing PoorEphah [Ten Omers]Regulations For The Sin Offering

The eighth day bring two male lambs and one female lamb a year old that are without any defects. Also bring five pounds of flour mixed with olive oil, and half a pint of olive oil. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LiquidDay 8Oil On SacrificesMale AnimalsFemale AnimalsPerfect SacrificesAnimals At Specific AgesEphah [Ten Omers]Making Cereal Offerings And LibationsOther Volume Measures

The standard dry measure used in Moses' day equaled twenty quarts. Verse ConceptsA Tenth Of ThingsComparative Measuresmeasurement


Do not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You must have a full and just weight. You should have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

The eighth day bring two male lambs and one female lamb a year old that are without any defects. Also bring five pounds of flour mixed with olive oil, and half a pint of olive oil. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LiquidDay 8Oil On SacrificesMale AnimalsFemale AnimalsPerfect SacrificesAnimals At Specific AgesEphah [Ten Omers]Making Cereal Offerings And LibationsOther Volume Measures

The priest will also take some of the olive oil and pour it into his own left hand. Verse ConceptsLeft HandsOil On Sacrifices


A fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines. His name was Goliath of Gath. He was over nine feet tall. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearGiantsChampions

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain. Verse ConceptsSowing And ReapingUnfruitfulnessWeights And Measures, DistancesWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative Measures

The dry and liquid measures must always be the same: The ephah and the bath should hold the same as one-tenth of a homer. The homer must be the standard measure. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative MeasuresRight Measuresmeasurement

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain. Verse ConceptsSowing And ReapingUnfruitfulnessWeights And Measures, DistancesWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative Measures

You must give one percent of your olive oil using the standard measure. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative Measures

And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink. Verse ConceptsBreaking SticksDrinking WaterFamine ComingFear Will ComePeople AppalledFamine Will ComeAnxiety And FearDespairweight

You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LiquidDrinking WaterNo Water For Peoplemeasurement

Make a rim three inches wide around it. Put a gold molding around the rim. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearBreadthGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, Lineardistance

That day two of them traveled to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearTwo Disciples

God understands the way to it. He knows where it lives Verse ConceptsWisdom

When he gave the wind its force and measured the water in the sea, Verse ConceptsWindGod Dispensing WindAtmospherebalanceweightpressuremeasurement

They were in charge of the bread set out on the table, the flour for the grain offerings, the unleavened wafers, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size. Verse ConceptsFoodConsecrated BreadShowbread

This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof on it and finish the ark to within eighteen inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle, and upper decks.


I am with you. I will rescue you, declares Jehovah. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you, but I will not completely destroy you. I will correct you with justice. I will not let you go entirely unpunished. Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelGod With Specific PeopleReproving PeopleAmerica


The siege caused a great food shortage in the city. It was so severe that a donkey's head cost eighty pieces of silver, and half a pound of dove's dung cost five pieces of silver. Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfCoinagedung and manureHeadsMonotonySuffering, Nature OfWeights And Measures, DryDefecationHelp In ShortageA Fourth PartExpensiveOther Volume Measuresboyfriendspoop

Make an offering of eight cups of flour mixed with one quart of virgin olive oil with the first lamb. Offer one quart of wine for a drink offering with the other lamb. Verse ConceptsOilOlivesWinedrink offeringAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingQuantities Of WineA Fourth PartA Tenth Of ThingsEphah [Ten Omers]

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale? Verse ConceptsBalance In LifeBreadthDivine BalancesHand Of GodHillsNatureBalances, Metaphorical UseStrength, DivineWeighingNumerous As DustHollowScienceThe OceanbalancedustweightmeasurementThe Vastness Of Nature


That is why the grave's appetite increases. It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it. Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears. Verse ConceptsCup Of SufferingTearsSevere Afflictions

Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am. Verse ConceptsEuthanasiaLife, HumanDeath, Preparation ForLife, Brevity OfAfflictions, Prayer DuringTransient WealthPeople EndedDeathDaysEnd Of Days

They sounded and found twenty fathoms. After a little space they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms. Verse ConceptsdepthDepthingNavigation

Is there a depository of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short measure that is cursed? Verse ConceptsAbominations, To GodStoring Treasure On EarthCursing ThingsProsperity Of The Wicked

Six stone water jars were placed there to honor purification rules of the Jews. Each contained more than twenty gallons. Verse ConceptsJews, TheJudaismRitual WashingWashingWaterWeights And Measures, LiquidSix ThingsWater ContainersStone ItemsMeans Of PurifyingPurifying OneselfOther Volume Measures