Falsehood
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Outline
- General scriptures concerning — Exodus 20:16; Exodus 23:1; Leviticus 6:2; Leviticus 19:11; Leviticus 19:12; Leviticus 19:16; Job 13:4; Job 21:34; Job 27:4; Job 31:5; Job 31:6; Job 31:33; Job 36:4; Psalms 5:6, and 96 more
- In deceiving Eve — Genesis 3:4; Genesis 3:5
- In impugning Job's motives for being righteous — Job 1:9; Job 1:10; Job 2:4; Job 2:5
- In his false pretensions to Jesus — Matthew 4:8; Matthew 4:9; Luke 4:6; Luke 4:7
- Adam and Eve, in attempting to evade responsibility — Genesis 3:12; Genesis 3:13
- Cain, in denying knowledge of his brother — Genesis 4:9
- Abraham, in denying that Sarah was his wife — Genesis 12:11; Genesis 20:2
- To the angels, denying her derisive laugh of unbelief — Genesis 18:15
- In denying to the king of Gerar, that she was Abraham's wife — Genesis 20:5; Genesis 20:16
- Isaac, denying that Rebekah was his wife — Genesis 26:7
- Rebekah and Isaac, in the conspiracy against Esau — Genesis 27:6; Genesis 27:46
- Jacob's sons, in the scheme to destroy the Shechemites by first having them circumcised — Genesis 34
- Joseph's brothers, in deceiving their father into a belief that Joseph was killed by wild beasts — Genesis 37:29
- Potiphar's wife, in falsely accusing Joseph — Genesis 39:14
- Joseph, in the deception he carried on with his brothers — Genesis 42; Genesis 43; Genesis 44
- Pharaoh, in dealing deceitfully with the Israelites — Exodus 7; Exodus 8; Exodus 9; Exodus 10; Exodus 11; Exodus 12
- Aaron, in attempting to shift responsibility for the making of the golden calf — Exodus 32:1
- Rahab, in denying that the spies were in her house — Joshua 2:4
- The Gibeonites, ambassadors, in the deception they perpetrated upon Joshua and the elders of Israel in leading them to believe that they came from a distant region, when in fact they lived in the immediate vicinity — Joshua 9
- Ehud, in pretending to carry secret messages to Eglon, king of Moab, while his real objective was to assassinate him — Judges 3:16
- Sisera, who instructed Jael to mislead his pursuers — Judges 4:20
- Saul, in professing to Samuel to have obeyed the commandment to destroy all spoils of the Amalekites, when in fact he had not obeyed — 1 Samuel 15:1
- In accusing Ahimelech of conspiring with David against himself — 1 Samuel 22:11
- David lied to Ahimelech, professing to have a mission from the king, in order that he might obtain provisions and armor — 1 Samuel 21
- David in feigning madness — 1 Samuel 21:13
- David's other deceits with the Philistines — 1 Samuel 27:8
- The falsehood of friendship to Absalom that David put in the mouth of Hushai — 2 Samuel 15:34
- Michal, in the false statement that David was sick, in order to save him from Saul's violence — 1 Samuel 19:12
- The Amalekite who claimed to have killed Saul — 2 Samuel 1:10
- In false professions to Absalom — 2 Samuel 16:16
- In his deceitful counsel to Absalom — 2 Samuel 17:7
- The wife of the Bahurimite who saved the lives of Hushai's messengers, sent to apprise David of the movements of Absalom's army — 2 Samuel 17:15
- Of Adonijah — 1 Kings 2:23
- Of Shimei — 1 Kings 2:42; 1 Kings 2:43
- Of Jeroboam's wife — 1 Kings 14:2
- The old prophet of Beth-el who misguided the prophet of Judah — 1 Kings 13:11
- Jeroboam's wife, feigning herself to be another woman — 1 Kings 14:5
- The conspirators against Naboth — 1 Kings 21:7
- Gehazi, when he ran after Naaman, and misrepresented that Elisha wanted a talent of silver and two changes of clothes — 2 Kings 5:20
- Hazael, servant of the king of Syria, lied to the king in misstating the prophet Elisha's message with regard to the king's recovery — 2 Kings 8:7
- Jehu lied to the worshipers of Baal in order to gain the advantage over them and destroy them — 2 Kings 10:18
- Zedekiah, in violating his oath of allegiance to Nebuchadnezzer — 2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 17:15
- Samaritans, in their efforts to hinder the rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem — Ezra 4
- Sanballat in trying to obstruct the rebuilding of Jerusalem — Nehemiah 6
- Haman, in his conspiracy against the Jews — Esther 3:8
- Jeremiah's adversaries, in accusing him of joining the Chaldeans — Jeremiah 37:13
- Princes of Israel, when they went to Jeremiah for a vision from the Lord — Jeremiah 42:20
- Herod the Great, to the wise men, in professing to desire to worship Jesus — Matthew 2:8
- In falsely accusing Jesus of being gluttonous and a winebibber (a wino) — Matthew 11:19
- In refusing to bear truthful testimony concerning John the Baptist — Matthew 21:24
- Falsely accusing Jesus of blasphemy, when he forgave sin — Matthew 9:2; Mark 2:7; Luke 5:21
- And when Jesus announced that he was the Son of God — Matthew 26:65; Mark 14:64; John 10:33
- Peter, in denying Jesus — Matthew 26:69; Mark 14:68; Luke 22:56; John 18:25
- The Roman soldiers, who said the disciples stole the body of Jesus — Matthew 28:13; Matthew 28:15
- The disobedient son, who promised to work in the vineyard, but did not — Matthew 21:30
- Ananias and Sapphira falsely state that they had sold their land for a given sum — Acts 5:1
- Stephen's accusers, who falsely accused him of blaspheming Moses and God — Acts 6:11
- Paul's traducers, falsely accusing him of treason to Caesar — Acts 16:20; Acts 16:21; Acts 17:5; Acts 24:5; Acts 25:7; Acts 25:8
- The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies — Titus 1:12
Topical outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897). The sub-headings are Nave's own.