Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall lodge in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
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Deuteronomy 7:26And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Joshua 9:20This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath come upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.
Job 8:22They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.
Job 20:26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!
James 5:2Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 5:2-5
The Vision of the Flying Roll. ( b. c. 520.) 1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to… Read the whole commentary →