47 Bible Verses about weight

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Deuteronomy 25:15

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Daniel 5:27

Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Job 28:25

When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

Ezekiel 4:10

And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

Job 31:6

(Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

Numbers 7:55

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Luke 11:46

And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

Revelation 16:21

And great drops of ice, every one about the weight of a talent, came down out of heaven on men: and men said evil things against God because of the punishment of the ice-drops; for it is very great.

Zechariah 5:8

And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

Leviticus 19:36

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

2 Samuel 14:26

And when he had his hair cut, (which he did at the end of every year, because of the weight of his hair;) the weight of the hair was two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

Job 26:8

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

Job 28:15

Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.

1 Kings 10:14

Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

Lamentations 4:2

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

Isaiah 40:12

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

Jeremiah 32:10

And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

2 Samuel 12:30

And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.

Matthew 23:4

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them

Proverbs 27:3

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

2 Chronicles 3:9

And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

Daniel 5:25

And this is the writing which was recorded, Mene, tekel, peres.

Leviticus 26:26

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

1 Chronicles 21:25

So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

John 19:39

And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.

Topics on Weight

Weights And Measures, Distances

Genesis 21:15-16

And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

Weights And Measures, Dry

2 Kings 6:25

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

Weights And Measures, Laws

Leviticus 19:35-36

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

Weights And Measures, Linear

Jeremiah 52:21

And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.

Weights And Measures, Liquid

Leviticus 14:10

And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.

Weights Of Gold

Genesis 24:22

And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;

Weights Of Other Things

Exodus 30:24

And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:

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