Zephaniah 1:9
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which qfill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
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1 Samuel 2:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
Acts 16:19 ¶And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
not to be taken for a single day, but more largely for that time wherein God would visit and punish.
insolently, and with rage, break open the doors of such whose goods they seize, upon pretence of forfeitures or fines; a sin that Ezekiel both taxed and threatened, Eze 8:17 12:19 45:9.
either the oppressing kings, whose officers these were, or public officers and judges, whose servants thus did (to enrich their masters) spoil the poor and the oppressed.
goods taken away by force, and kept as much against right, as at first taken away without right;
by false accusations, and by suborned evidence for proof, and by perjuries.