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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Isa 1:23 — Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
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Isa 3:14 |
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses. |
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2Ch 24:17 |
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. |
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2Ch 24:18 |
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. |
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2Ch 24:19 |
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear. |
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2Ch 24:20 |
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you. |
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2Ch 24:21 |
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. |
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2Ch 36:14 |
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. |
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Jer 5:5 |
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, [and] the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, [and] burst the bonds. |
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Eze 22:6 |
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. |
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Eze 22:7 |
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. |
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Eze 22:8 |
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. |
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Eze 22:9 |
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. |
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Eze 22:10 |
In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. |
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Eze 22:11 |
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. |
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Eze 22:12 |
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. |
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Dan 9:5 |
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: |
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Dan 9:6 |
Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. |
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Hsa 7:3 |
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. |
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Hsa 7:4 |
They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. |
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Hsa 7:5 |
In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. |
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Hsa 9:15 |
All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters. |
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Mic 3:1 |
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment? |
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Mic 3:2 |
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; |
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Mic 3:3 |
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. |
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Mic 3:11 |
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. |
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Act 4:5 |
And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, |
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Act 4:6 |
And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. |
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Act 4:7 |
And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? |
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Act 4:8 |
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, |
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Act 4:9 |
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; |
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Act 4:10 |
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole. |
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Act 4:11 |
This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. |
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Pro 29:24 |
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth [it] not. |
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Mat 21:13 |
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. |
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Mar 11:17 |
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. |
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Luk 19:46 |
Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. |
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Isa 33:15 |
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; |
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Exd 23:8 |
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. |
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Deu 16:19 |
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. |
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Pro 17:23 |
A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. |
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Jer 22:17 |
But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it]. |
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Eze 22:12 |
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD. |
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Hsa 4:18 |
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give ye. |
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Mic 7:3 |
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. |
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Isa 10:1 |
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed; |
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Isa 10:2 |
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless! |
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Jer 5:28 |
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. |
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Jer 5:29 |
Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
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Zec 7:10 |
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. |
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Mal 3:5 |
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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Luk 18:2 |
Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: |
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Luk 18:3 |
And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. |
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Luk 18:4 |
And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; |
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Luk 18:5 |
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 1:23," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Isa/1/23.html>.
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