1 Samuel 8:3 Cross References - Rotherham

³ Howbeit his sons walked not in his ways, but stooped to extortion,––and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

²¹ Thou thyself, therefore, shalt look out, from among all the people––men of ability, reverers of God, men of fidelity, haters of extortion,––and place them over [them] as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

⁸ And, a bribe, shalt thou not take,––for, the bribe, blindeth the clear–sighted, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment, thou shalt not take note of faces,––nor shalt thou accept a bribe, for, the bribe, blindeth the eyes of wise men, and perverteth the words of righteous men.

⁴ And Absalom said, Oh would that I were appointed to judge in the land! that, unto me, might come every man having a complaint or a defence, then would I see him righted.

⁶ Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who used to stand before Solomon his father, while he yet lived, saying,––How do, ye, advise, that I answer this people? ⁷ And they spake unto him, saying––If, today, thou wilt be servant unto this people, and wilt serve them,––and answer them kindly, and speak unto them good words, then will they be, thy, servants, always. ⁸ But he declined the counsel of the elders which they gave him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up with him, who were standing before himself; ⁹ and said unto them––What counsel do, ye, give as to how we shall answer this people who have spoken unto me, saying––Make a lightening of the yoke which thy father put upon us? ¹⁰ Then spake unto him the young men who had grown up with him, saying, Thus, shalt thou say to this people that have spoken unto thee, saying––Thy father, made our yoke heavy, thou, therefore lighten it upon us, Thus, shalt thou speak unto them, My little finger, is thicker than my father’s loins; ¹¹ Now, therefore, whereas, my father, laid upon you a heavy yoke, I, will add to your yoke,––My father, did chastise you with whips, but, I, will chastise you with scorpions.

¹ Twelve years old, was Manasseh when he began to reign, and, fifty–five years, reigned he in Jerusalem,––and the name of his mother was Hephzibah. ² And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,––after the abominable practices of the nations, whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel. ³ He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed,––and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them.

⁵ His silver, hath he not put out on interest, nor, a bribe against the innocent, hath he taken. He that doeth these things, shall not be shaken unto times age–abiding.

¹⁰ In whose hands is a plot, and, their right hand, is filled with a bribe.

¹⁹ and who could know whether a, wise man, he would be or a foolish, and yet he would lord it over all my toil, wherein I had toiled and wherein I had acted wisely, under the sun,––even this, was vanity.

¹⁵ He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly,––He that refuseth the gain of exactions, That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,

¹⁵ Shalt thou reign, because, thou, art eager to excel in cedar? Thy father, did he not eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, And, then, it was well with him? ¹⁶ [Did he not] plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh. ¹⁷ Verily thou hast neither eyes, nor heart, save for thy plundering and for thy shedding of, innocent blood, and for oppression and for crushing, to do, them!

³ Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,

¹⁰ For, a root of all the vices, is the love of money, which, some, being eager for, have been seduced from the faith, and have pierced, themselves, about with many pangs.