Zephaniah 1:9

The Scriptures 2009

“And I shall punish on that day all who leap over the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

Cross References

1 Samuel 5:5

That is why, to this day, the priests of Daḡon and all who come into Daḡon’s house do not tread on the threshold of Daḡon in Ashdoḏ.

Amos 3:10

But they do not know to do what is right,’ declares יהוה, ‘these who store up plunder and loot in their palaces.’ ”

Acts 16:19

But when her masters saw that their anticipation of money-making was gone, they seized Sha’ul and Silas and dragged them into the market-place to the rulers.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to lying words, All his servants become wrong.

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty sheqels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of Elohim.

Judges 19:27

And her master rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, and saw his concubine, fallen at the door of the house with her hands on the threshold.

Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is filled with birds, so their houses are filled with deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

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.

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “It is an ĕphah-measure that is going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance throughout the earth: