Zephaniah 1:9

New American Bible - revised edition

I will punish, on that day, all who leap over the threshold, Who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:15

The earlier governors, my predecessors, had laid a heavy burden on the people, taking from them each day forty silver shekels for their food; then, too, their attendants oppressed the people. But I, because I feared God, did not do this.

Proverbs 29:12

If rulers listen to lying words, their servants all become wicked.

Jeremiah 5:27

Their houses are as full of treachery as a bird-cage is of birds; Therefore they grow powerful and rich,

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Micah 6:12

You whose wealthy are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their mouths!

Zechariah 5:6

I said, “What is it?” And he answered, “This is the basket that is coming.” And he said, “This is their guilt in all the land.”

Acts 16:19

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square before the local authorities.

Judges 19:27

When her husband rose in the morning and opened the door of the house to start out again on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, collapsed at the entrance of the house with her hands on the threshold.

1 Samuel 5:5

For this reason, neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter the temple of Dagon tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this very day. The Ark Is Carried About.