47 Bible Verses about weight
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You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.
For each person will have to carry his own load.
Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s;
all the weights in the bag are His concern.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.
Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord,
but an accurate weight is His delight.
The food you eat each day will be eight ounces by weight; you will eat it from time to time.
“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly
let God weigh me in accurate scales,
and He will recognize my integrity.
His offering was one silver dish weighing 3¼ pounds and one silver basin weighing 1¾ pounds, measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.
Enormous hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds, fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
“This is Wickedness,” he said. He shoved her down into the basket and pushed the lead weight over its opening.
You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
When he shaved his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy for him that he had to shave it off—he would weigh the hair from his head and it would be five pounds according to the royal standard.
Gold cannot be exchanged for it,
and silver cannot be weighed out for its price.
Do not boast so proudly,
or let arrogant words come out of your mouth,
for the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and actions are weighed by Him.
The weight of gold that came to Solomon annually was 25 tons,
ב BetZion’s precious people—
once worth their weight in pure gold—
how they are regarded as clay jars,
the work of a potter’s hands!
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?
I recorded it on a scroll, sealed it, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver in the scales.
The path of the righteous is level;
You clear a straight path for the righteous.
He took the crown from the head of their king, and it was placed on David’s head. The crown weighed 75 pounds of gold, and it had a precious stone in it. In addition, David took away a large quantity of plunder from the city.
They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.
The weight of the nails was 20 ounces of gold, and he overlaid the ceiling with gold.
When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Nicodemus (who had previously come to Him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes.
Topics on Weight
Just Weights
Proverbs 11:1
but an accurate weight is His delight.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Weights And Measures, Dry
2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine
Weights And Measures, Laws
Leviticus 19:35-36“You must not be unfair
Weights And Measures, Linear
Jeremiah 52:21One pillar was 27 feet
Weights And Measures, Liquid
Leviticus 14:10“On the eighth day he must take two unblemished
Weights Of Gold
Genesis 24:22After the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and for her wrists two bracelets weighing 10 shekels of gold.
Weights Of Other Things
Exodus 30:2412½ pounds