47 Bible Verses about weight

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Deuteronomy 25:15

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.

Daniel 5:27

‘TEKĒL’—you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

Ezekiel 4:16

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,

Job 28:25

“When He imparted weight to the wind
And meted out the waters by measure,

Ezekiel 4:10

Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

Job 31:6

Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

Numbers 7:55

his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

Luke 11:46

But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

Revelation 16:21

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.

Zechariah 5:8

Then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its opening.

Leviticus 19:36

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.

2 Samuel 14:26

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.

Job 26:8

“He wraps up the waters in His clouds,
And the cloud does not burst under them.

Job 28:15

“Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for it,
Nor can silver be weighed as its price.

1 Samuel 2:3

“Boast no more so very proudly,
Do not let arrogance come out of your mouth;
For the Lord is a God of knowledge,
And with Him actions are weighed.

1 Kings 10:14

Now the weight of gold which came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

Lamentations 4:2

The precious sons of Zion,
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens by the span,
And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

Jeremiah 32:10

I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is smooth;
O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

2 Samuel 12:30

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.

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

2 Chronicles 3:9

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.

Daniel 5:25

“Now this is the inscription that was written out: ‘MENĒ, MENĒ, TEKĒL, UPHARSIN.’

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.

1 Chronicles 21:25

So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.

John 19:39

Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

Topics on Weight

Weights And Measures, Distances

Genesis 21:15-16

When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

Weights And Measures, Dry

2 Kings 6:25

There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

Weights And Measures, Laws

Leviticus 19:35-36

You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.

Weights And Measures, Linear

Jeremiah 52:21

As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

Weights And Measures, Liquid

Leviticus 14:10

“Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil;

Weights Of Gold

Genesis 24:22

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 Of Other Things

Exodus 30:24

and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.

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