Thematic Bible: Weights
Thematic Bible
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, 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 Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh'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 Yahweh.
You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Weights » Must be just
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 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 Yahweh your God gives you.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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:
Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.
Weights » Value of money estimated according to
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Talent
He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and [in it were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
Weights » All metals were given by
of gold by weight for the [vessels of] gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; [of silver] for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Maneh or pound
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Shekel
They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Gerah
They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.
Weights » Were frequently used in scales or balances
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
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?
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small. You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have unjust
"'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Dram
Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests' garments. Some of the heads of fathers' [houses] gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas of silver.
Weights » Sometimes regulated by the king's standard
When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.
Weights » Mentioned in scripture » Bekah or half-shekel
It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Verse Concepts
Freedom, Abuse Of ChristianAmbition, positive aspects ofAvoiding Sinevil, believers' responses toClouds, Figurative UseAttitudes, in prayerAthleticsThe Christian RaceLibertinismPatience, In Christian LivingPersecution, Attitudes ToPrizesRunningSelf DisciplineSuffering, Encouragements InConduct, ProperGames, SpiritualVictoryAbuse, Of Christian FreedomPatience Exercised
Weights » Generally regulated by the standard of the sanctuary
and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.
Weights » The jews » Frequently used unjust
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
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