Micah 6:10

God indicts the wicked for hoarding ill-gotten wealth and using fraudulent, undersized measures. It condemns dishonest gain as something He abhors.

Cross-references · 18

• Amos 3:10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
• Prov 20:10Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
• Amos 8:5–6Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
• Prov 21:6Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
• Jer 5:26–27For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Deut 25:13–16You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
• Prov 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
• 2 Kgs 5:23–24Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.
• Ezek 45:9–12Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Prov 20:23Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
• Hab 2:5–11Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
• Lev 19:35–36“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
• Prov 11:1A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
• Josh 7:1But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
• Zech 5:3–4Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
• Hos 12:7–8A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
• Zeph 1:9In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

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