DECEPTION

Passages on this topic · 129

• Genesis 3:4

  The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 20:2

  Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

• Genesis 27:6

  Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.’

• Genesis 27:8

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

• Genesis 27:9

  Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

• Genesis 27:10

  You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

• Genesis 27:11

  Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

• Genesis 27:12

  What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

• Genesis 27:13

  His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

• Genesis 27:14

  He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

• Genesis 27:15

  Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

• Genesis 27:16

  She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

• Genesis 27:17

  She gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 34:13

  The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

• Genesis 34:14

  and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

• Genesis 34:15

  Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

• Genesis 34:16

  then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

• Genesis 34:17

  But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone.”

• Genesis 34:18

  Their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son.

• Genesis 34:19

  The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.

• Genesis 34:20

  Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,

• Genesis 34:21

  “These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

• Genesis 34:22

  Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

• Genesis 34:23

  Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

• Genesis 34:24

  All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

• Genesis 34:25

  On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

• Genesis 34:26

  They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

• Genesis 34:27

  Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

• Genesis 34:28

  They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

• Genesis 34:29

  and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Genesis 34:31

  They said, “Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?”

• Genesis 37:29

  Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

• Genesis 37:30

  He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

• Genesis 37:31

  They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

• Genesis 37:32

  They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”

• Genesis 37:33

  He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

• Genesis 37:34

  Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 37:35

  All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.

• Joshua 9:3

  But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

• Joshua 9:4

  they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

• Joshua 9:5

  and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

• Joshua 9:6

  They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

• Joshua 9:7

  The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?”

• Joshua 9:8

  They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

• Joshua 9:9

  They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

• Joshua 9:10

  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

• Joshua 9:11

  Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, “We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us.”’

• Joshua 9:12

  This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

• Joshua 9:13

  These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.”

• Joshua 9:14

  The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.

• Joshua 9:15

  Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

• Judges 3:15

  But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

• Judges 3:16

  Ehud made himself a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he wore it under his clothing on his right thigh.

• Judges 3:17

  He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.

• Judges 3:18

  When he had finished offering the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.

• Judges 3:19

  But he himself turned back from the stone idols that were by Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” The king said, “Keep silence!” All who stood by him left him.

• Judges 3:20

  Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a message from God to you.” He arose out of his seat.

• Judges 3:21

  Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

• Judges 3:22

  and the handle also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn’t draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.

• Judges 3:23

  Then Ehud went out onto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.

• Judges 3:24

  After he had gone, his servants came and saw that the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the upper room.”

• Judges 3:25

  They waited until they were ashamed; and behold, he didn’t open the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their lord had fallen down dead on the floor.

• Judges 3:26

  Ehud escaped while they waited, passed beyond the stone idols, and escaped to Seirah.

• Judges 3:27

  When he had come, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he led them.

• Judges 3:28

  He said to them, “Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn’t allow any man to pass over.

• Judges 3:29

  They struck at that time about ten thousand men of Moab, every strong man, and every man of valor. No man escaped.

• Judges 3:30

  So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.

• Judges 16:4

  It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

• Judges 16:5

  The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

• Judges 16:6

  Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

• Judges 16:7

  Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

• Judges 16:8

  Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

• Judges 16:9

  Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.

• Judges 16:10

  Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now please tell me with which you might be bound.”

• Judges 16:11

  He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

• Judges 16:12

  So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

• Judges 16:13

  Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.”

• Judges 16:14

  She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

• Judges 16:15

  She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

• Judges 16:16

  When she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.

• Judges 16:17

  He told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

• Judges 16:18

  When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

• Judges 16:19

  She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

• Judges 16:20

  She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

• 1 Samuel 21:10

  David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 21:11

  The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’”

• 1 Samuel 21:12

  David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 21:13

  He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

• 1 Samuel 21:14

  Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?

• 1 Samuel 21:15

  Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”

• 2 Samuel 13:6

  So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”

• 2 Samuel 13:7

  Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”

• 2 Samuel 13:8

  So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

• 2 Samuel 13:9

  She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.

• 2 Samuel 13:10

  Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother.

• 2 Samuel 13:11

  When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!”

• 2 Samuel 13:12

  She answered him, “No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don’t you do this folly.

• 2 Samuel 13:13

  As for me, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”

• 2 Samuel 13:14

  However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

• 2 Samuel 13:24

  Absalom came to the king, and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”

• 2 Samuel 13:25

  The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.

• 2 Samuel 13:26

  Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”

• 2 Samuel 13:27

  But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

• 2 Samuel 13:28

  Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”

• 2 Samuel 15:7

  At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 16:15

  Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

• 2 Samuel 16:16

  When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

• 2 Samuel 16:17

  Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

• 2 Samuel 16:18

  Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will stay.

• 2 Samuel 16:19

  Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so will I be in your presence.”

• 1 Kings 13:18

  He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

• 2 Kings 5:20

  But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

• Job 6:15

  My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

• Psalms 52:2

  Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

• Matthew 2:8

  He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

• Matthew 22:16

  They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

• Mark 14:1

  It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

• Luke 10:25

  Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

• Acts 5:1

  But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,