Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
But a
And a bag of deceptive 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 from the land of Egypt.
All the
“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Both of them are abominable to the Lord.
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.
Weights » Must be just
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Both of them are abominable to the Lord.
'You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity. 'You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. "You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. "You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
"Is there yet a man in the wicked house, Along with treasures of wickedness And a short measure that is cursed? "Can I justify wicked scales And a bag of deceptive weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,
Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.
Weights » Value of money estimated according to
Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.
“I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.
and it came about when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full. So we have brought it back in our hand.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
Then he took the crown of their king from his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in great amounts.
And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.
Weights » All metals were given by
for the golden utensils, the weight of gold for all utensils for every kind of service; for the silver utensils, the weight of silver for all utensils for every kind of service;
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.
Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.
Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
And let God know
And marked off the heavens by the
And
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. "You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
'You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity. 'You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
Some from among the heads of fathers' households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, 50 basins, 530 priests' garments. Some of the heads of fathers' households gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the king’s weight.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
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Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
And a bag of deceptive weights?
Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
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