Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Be gone
Making
Falsifying the balances by deceit
General references
Bible References
When
Numbers 10:10
Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
Numbers 28:11
‘Then at the beginning of each of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;
2 Kings 4:23
He said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath.” And she said, “It will be well.”
Psalm 81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on ourfeast day.
At the full moon, on our
Isaiah 1:13 “Bring your worthless offerings no longer,
Incense is an abomination to Me.
New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—
I cannotendure iniquity and the solemn assembly.
I cannot
Colossians 2:16
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—
Be gone
Malachi 1:13
You also say, ‘My, how tiresome it is!’ And you disdainfully sniff at it,” says the Lord of hosts, “and you bring what was taken by robbery and what is lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I receive that from your hand?” says the Lord.
And the
Exodus 20:8
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs and all kinds of loads, and they brought them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. So I admonished them on the day they sold food.
Isaiah 58:13 “If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot
From doing your own pleasure on My holy day,
And call the sabbath adelight, the holy day of the Lord honorable,
And honor it, desisting from yourown ways,
From seeking your own pleasure
Andspeaking your own word,
From doing your own pleasure on My holy day,
And call the sabbath a
And honor it, desisting from your
From seeking your own pleasure
And
Romans 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
Making
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.
Deuteronomy 25:13
“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
But ajust weight is His delight.
But a
Proverbs 16:11 A just balance and scales belong to the Lord;
All theweights of the bag are His concern.
All the
Proverbs 20:23 Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord,
And afalse scale is not good.
And a
Ezekiel 45:10
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.
Micah 6:10 “Is there yet a man in the wicked house,
Along with treasures ofwickedness
And ashort measure that is cursed?
Along with treasures of
And a
Falsifying the balances by deceit
Hosea 12:7 A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.
He loves to oppress.
General references
Exodus 20:15
“You shall not steal.
Leviticus 25:14
If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.
Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
And drink the wine of violence.
And drink the wine of violence.
Ezekiel 22:8
You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.
Ezekiel 45:10
“You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.