Bribery

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningExodus 23:8Deuteronomy 16:18Deuteronomy 16:19Deuteronomy 27:251 Samuel 8:11 Samuel 8:3Job 15:34Psalms 26:9Psalms 26:10Proverbs 15:27Proverbs 17:8Proverbs 17:23Proverbs 18:16Proverbs 21:14Proverbs 25:14Proverbs 28:21Proverbs 29:4Ecclesiastes 7:7Isaiah 1:23Isaiah 5:22
• INSTANCES OF
• DelilahJudges 16:5
• Samuel's sons
• See above
• The false prophet, ShemaiahNehemiah 6:10–13
• Ben-hadad1 Kings 15:19
• Haman bribes Ahasuerus to destroy the JewsEsther 3:9
• Chief priests bribe JudasMatthew 26:15Matthew 27:3–9Mark 14:11Luke 22:5
• Soldiers bribed to declare that the disciples stole the body of JesusMatthew 28:12–15
• Governor Felix seeks a bribe from PaulActs 24:26

The passages, in Bible order (39)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 23:8

   Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

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   “And thou shalt take no gift,....

   “Thou shalt take no gift - A strong ordinance against selling justice, which has been the disgrace and ruin of every state where it has been practiced.

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2. Deuteronomy 16:18

   You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 16:182 voices

   “Judges and officers shall thou make thee,.... Judges were fixed in the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, and those that have lawsuits come before them; officers are masters of the staff and whip, and they stand before the judges, and go into markets, streets, and shops, to order the weights and measures, and to smite all that do wrong; and all they do is by order of the judges; so Maimonides (s): the qualifications of judges to be chosen and constituted by the people are thus described by him.

   “Judges and officers shalt thou make - Judges, שפטים shophetim, among the Hebrews, were probably the same as our magistrates or justices of the peace. Officers, שטרים shoterim, seem to have been the same as our inquest sergeants, beadles, etc., whose office it was to go into the houses, shops, etc., and examine weights, measures, and the civil conduct of the people. When they found any thing amiss, they brought the person offending before the magistrate, and he was punished by the officer on the spot. They seem also to have acted as heralds in the army, Deu 20:

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3. Deuteronomy 16:19

   Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

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   The ninth plague was of darkness, by which the covetous and avaricious are struck, because nothing so blinds a man as covetousness. Whence the Prophet: "Gifts and presents blind the eyes of the prudent and change the words of the just."

   “Thou shall not wrest judgment,....

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4. Deuteronomy 27:25

   ‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

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   “Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person,.... As an assassin, to murder him privately; or as a judge, that takes a bribe to condemn to death an innocent person: so Aben Ezra observes, that according to the sense of some a judge is meant; but, says he, in my opinion a false witness; one that swears a man's life away for the sake of a reward given him: and all the people shall say Amen; at so detestable a crime.

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5. Judges 16:5

   The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

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   “And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her,.... Having heard that Samson kept company with her, she being a noted strumpet, like Lais among the Grecians.

   “Overcome by love of money, Achan led to destruction all the people of the fathers. So Joshua the son of Nun, who could stay the sun from setting, could not stay the love of money in people from creeping on. At the sound of his voice the sun stood still, but love of money stayed not. When the sun stood still, Joshua completed his triumph, but when love of money went on, he almost lost the victory.Why? Did not the woman Delilah's love of money deceive Samson, the bravest man of all?

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6. 1 Samuel 8:1

   When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

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   “1. The deeds of holy men who came before are often the consolations of the elect who follow.

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7. 1 Samuel 8:3

   But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 8:32 voices

   “1. The deeds of holy men who came before are often the consolations of the elect who follow.

   “But possibly you flatter yourself that since the bishop who has made you a deacon is a holy man, his merits will atone for your transgressions. I have already told you that the father is not punished for the son or the son for the father. "The soul that sins shall itself die." Samuel too had sons who forsook the fear of the Lord and "turned aside after lucre" and iniquity.

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8. 1 Kings 15:19

   “Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”

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   “There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father,....

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9. Nehemiah 6:10–13

   Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you— by night they are coming to kill you!”

   ›Commentary on Nehemiah 6:10–131 voice

   “And I entered the house of Shemaiah, etc. Assaulted by the treacheries of enemies, Nehemiah entered the house of Shemaiah as though of a friend and brother; but he also found him to be a traitor and enemy, since he had been corrupted by the …

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10. Esther 3:9

    If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

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    “So Haman promised ten thousand talents of silver to the king, and asked for the death of the Jews; and so too the Jewish people, who were dedicated to the fleshly observance of the rites of the Law in the belief that they were pleasing …

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11. Job 15:34

    For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

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    “Respecting this merit he says, "what the hypocrite collects is sterile," because what is gathered by the hypocrite bears no fruit, "and fire will devour the tents of those who freely accepts gifts." For things acquired wickedly are sometimes easily destroyed according to divine judgment. …

    “Ver. 33, 34. His cluster shall be spoilt like a vine in the first flower, and like an olive casting its flower. For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be barren. It is to be observed that the Divine Word so speaks of this wicked man in general terms, that yet it comes down to his particular wickedness.

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12. Psalms 26:9

    Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

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    “Here he explains the petition for judgment that he seeks: and he explains what kind of judgment he sought: and he asks two things. First he asks to be separated from evils that may come in the future. Second, from evils he suffers in the …

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13. Psalms 26:10

    in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

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    "In whose hands are iniquities"; as if to say, I ask this, namely to be separated from them then, because now I am separated in manner of life and conduct, because "iniquities are in their hands," namely, they are very prone to evil: Prov. 1: …

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14. Proverbs 15:27

    He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

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    “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house,....

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15. Proverbs 17:8

    A bribe is a charm to its giver; wherever he turns, he succeeds.

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    "The expectation of the one who waits is a most precious gem; wherever he turns, he understands prudently." Prudential understanding instructs what is to be awaited, namely the highest good. In all things that direct our understanding in what is to be done and what …

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16. Proverbs 17:23

    A wicked man takes a covert bribe to subvert the course of justice.

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    “A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom,.... Of another, of a rich man, who takes it out from thence, and offers it to him as a bribe. This he takes in the most secret manner, that it might not be seen by others; though the Arabic version renders it, "he that receives a gift in his own bosom commits iniquity"; it is true of both the giver and the receiver; the one gives out of his bosom, and the other takes if from thence, and puts it into his own, and both are wicked.

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