Zephaniah 1:9

English Standard Version 2016

On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.

Cross References

1 Samuel 5:5

This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

Acts 16:19

But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Judges 19:27

And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”