Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”
1 Samuel 8:3 - English Standard Version 2016 Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain, took bribes, and perverted justice. American Standard Version (1901) And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice. Common English Bible But Samuel’s sons didn’t follow in his footsteps. They tried to turn a profit, they accepted bribes, and they perverted justice. Catholic Public Domain Version But his sons did not walk in his ways. Instead, they turned aside, pursuing avarice. And they accepted bribes, and they perverted judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. |
Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”
who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.