Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.
Which in their hands mischief, and their right hand filled with sifts.
The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment
Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.
He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;
For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate
Presents » Were given » To judges to secure a favorable hearing
The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn it back, for their selling the just one for silver and the needy for shoes;
The judgment of babylon » Who perverts the ways of judgment
The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.
And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.
Which in their hands mischief, and their right hand filled with sifts.
The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment
Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.
He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;
For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate