Isaiah 1:23

The Scriptures 1998

Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:14

Also, all the heads of the priests and the people trespassed more and more, according to all the abominations of the gentiles, and they defiled the House of יהוה  which He had set apart in Yerushalayim.

Exodus 23:8

“And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the seeing one and twists the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 17:23

One who is wrong accepts a bribe behind the back To pervert the paths of right-ruling.

Proverbs 29:24

He who shares with a thief hates his own life; He hears an oath, but does not report.

Isaiah 1:17

“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 1:22

Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water.

Isaiah 28:14

Therefore hear the Word of יהוה, you men of scorn, who rule this people who are in Yerushalayim,

Isaiah 3:14

יהוה  enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the stubborn children,” declares יהוה, “to make counsel, but not from Me, and to devise plans, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks what is straight, he who rejects the gain of oppressions, who keeps his hands from accepting bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil –

Isaiah 5:23

who declare right the wrong for a bribe, and the righteousness of the righteous they turn aside from him!

Isaiah 65:2

“I have held out My hands all day long to a stubborn people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Jeremiah 22:17

“But your eyes and your heart are only upon your own greedy gain, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and on doing violence.”

Jeremiah 32:32

because of all the evil of the children of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 4:17

“Like keepers of a field they are against her all around, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 5:5

“Let me go to the great men and speak to them, for they have known the way of יהוה, the right-ruling of their Elohim.” But these have altogether broken the yoke and torn off the bonds.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall smite them, a wolf of the deserts ravage them. A leopard is watching over their cities, whoever comes out of them is torn in pieces. For their transgressions have been many, their backslidings have been numerous.

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you are dwelling in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but they have not seen, they have ears to hear but they have not heard, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 22:27

“Her leaders in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy lives, and to get greedy gain.

Hosea 4:18

“Their drink is sour, they have whored continually. Her rulers wildly loved shame.

Hosea 5:10

“The chiefs of Yehuḏ

Hosea 9:15

“All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I have hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I drive them from My house, no more do I love them. All their rulers are rebels.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great, afflicting the righteous and accepting bribes, and turning aside the poor at the gate.

Micah 3:11

Her heads judge for a bribe, her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for a price. Yet they lean on יהוה, and say, “Is not יהוה  in our midst? Evil does not come upon us.”

Micah 3:9

Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽ

Micah 6:12

“For her rich men are filled with cruel unrighteousness, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit in their mouth.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together.

Zechariah 7:10

“Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

Malachi 3:5

“And I shall draw near to you for right-ruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said יהוה  of hosts.

Numbers 22:7

And the elders of Mo’aḇ

Matthew 21:13

And He said to them, “It has been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

Mark 11:17

And He was teaching, saying to them, “Has it not been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

Luke 19:46

saying to them, “It has been written, ‘My House is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ ”

Luke 24:27

And beginning at Mosheh and all the Prophets, He was explaining to them in all the Scriptures the matters concerning Himself.

Deuteronomy 16:19

“Do not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

James 1:27

Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his ways, and turned aside after own gain, and took bribes, and twisted right-ruling.