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FALSEHOOD ;

General scriptures concerning - Ex 20:16; 23:1; Le 6:2-7; 19:11,12,16; Job 13:4; 21:34; 27:4; 31:5,6,33; 36:4; Ps 5:6,9; 10:7; 12:2,3; 28:3; 31:18; 34:13; 36:3; 50:19,20; 52:2-5; 55:21,23; 58:3; 59:12; 62:4; 63:11; 101:5,7; 109:2; 116:11; 119:29,69,163; 120:2-4; 144:8,11; Pr 2:12-15; 3:3; 6:12,13,17-19; 10:9,10,18,31; 11:9; 12:17,19,20,22; 13:5; 14:5,8,25; 17:4,7; 19:5,9,22,28; 20:17; 21:6; 26:18,19,24-26,28; 27:14; Ec 5:6; Isa 28:15; 32:7; 57:11; 59:3,4,12,13; 63:8; Jer 7:8,28; 9:3,5,6,8; 12:6; 50:36; Eze 22:9; Ho 4:1,2; Ob 1:7; Mic 6:12; Na 3:1; Zep 3:13; Mt 25:44-46; Joh 8:44,45; Eph 4:25,29; Col 3:9; 1Ti 1:9,10; 4:2; 1Pe 3:10,16; Re 21:8,27; 22:15

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See WITNESS

See FLATTERY

See HYPOCRISY

See PERJURY

See FALSE TEACHERS,

INSTANCES OF

• Satan
• In deceiving Eve
- Ge 3:4,5
• In impugning Job's motives for being righteous
- Job 1:9,10; 2:4,5
• In his false pretensions to Jesus
- Mt 4:8,9; Lu 4:6,7
• Adam and Eve, in attempting to evade responsibility
- Ge 3:12,13
• Cain, in denying knowledge of his brother
- Ge 4:9
• Abraham, in denying that Sarah was his wife
- Ge 12:11-19; 20:2
• Sarah
• To the angels, denying her derisive laugh of unbelief
- Ge 18:15
• In denying to the king of Gerar, that she was Abraham's
wife - Ge 20:5,16
• Isaac, denying that Rebekah was his wife
- Ge 26:7-10
• Rebekah and Isaac, in the conspiracy against Esau
- Ge 27:6-24,46
• Jacob's sons, in the scheme to destroy the Shechemites by
first having them circumcised - Ge 34
• Joseph's brothers, in deceiving their father into a belief
that Joseph was killed by wild beasts - Ge 37:29-35
• Potiphar's wife, in falsely accusing Joseph
- Ge 39:14-17
• Joseph, in the deception he carried on with his brothers
- Ge 42; 43; 44
• Pharaoh, in dealing deceitfully with the Israelites
- Ex 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
• Aaron, in attempting to shift responsibility for the making
of the golden calf - Ex 32:1-24
• Rahab, in denying that the spies were in her house
- Jos 2:4-6
• 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 - Jos 9
• Ehud, in pretending to carry secret messages to Eglon, king
of Moab, while his real objective was to assassinate him - Jud 3:16-23
• Sisera, who instructed Jael to mislead his pursuers
- Jud 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 - 1Sa 15:1-26
• In accusing Ahimelech of conspiring with David against
himself - 1Sa 22:11-16
• David lied to Ahimelech, professing to have a mission from
the king, in order that he might obtain provisions and armor - 1Sa 21
• David in feigning madness
- 1Sa 21:13-15
• David's other deceits with the Philistines
- 1Sa 27:8-12
• The falsehood of friendship to Absalom that David put in the
mouth of Hushai - 2Sa 15:34-37
• Michal, in the false statement that David was sick, in order
to save him from Saul's violence - 1Sa 19:12-17
• The Amalekite who claimed to have killed Saul
- 2Sa 1:10-12
• Hushai
• In false professions to Absalom
- 2Sa 16:16-19
• In his deceitful counsel to Absalom
- 2Sa 17:7-14
• The wife of the Bahurimite who saved the lives of Hushai's
messengers, sent to apprise David of the movements of Absalom's army - 2Sa 17:15-22
• The murder, under false pretense
• Of Adonijah
- 1Ki 2:23
• Of Shimei
- 1Ki 2:42,43
• Of Jeroboam's wife
- 1Ki 14:2
• The old prophet of Beth-el who misguided the prophet of
Judah - 1Ki 13:11-22
• Jeroboam's wife, feigning herself to be another woman
- 1Ki 14:5-7
• The conspirators against Naboth
- 1Ki 21:7-13
• Gehazi, when he ran after Naaman, and misrepresented that
Elisha wanted a talent of silver and two changes of clothes - 2Ki 5:20-24
• 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 - 2Ki 8:7-15
• Jehu lied to the worshipers of Baal in order to gain the
advantage over them and destroy them - 2Ki 10:18-28
• Zedekiah, in violating his oath of allegiance to
Nebuchadnezzer - 2Ch 36:13; Eze 16:59; 17:15-20
• Samaritans, in their efforts to hinder the rebuilding of the
temple at Jerusalem - Ezr 4
• Sanballat in trying to obstruct the rebuilding of Jerusalem
- Ne 6
• Haman, in his conspiracy against the Jews
- Es 3:8
• Jeremiah's adversaries, in accusing him of joining the
Chaldeans - Jer 37:13-15
• Princes of Israel, when they went to Jeremiah for a vision
from the Lord - Jer 42:20
• Herod the Great, to the wise men, in professing to desire to
worship Jesus - Mt 2:8
• Jewish leaders
• In falsely accusing Jesus of being gluttonous and a
winebibber (a wino) - Mt 11:19
• In refusing to bear truthful testimony concerning John the
Baptist - Mt 21:24-27
• Falsely accusing Jesus of blasphemy, when he forgave sin
- Mt 9:2-6; Mr 2:7; Lu 5:21
• And when Jesus announced that he was the Son of God
- Mt 26:65; Mr 14:64; Joh 10:33-38
• Peter, in denying Jesus
- Mt 26:69-75; Mr 14:68-71; Lu 22:56-62; Joh 18:25-27
• The Roman soldiers, who said the disciples stole the body of
Jesus - Mt 28:13,15
• The disobedient son, who promised to work in the vineyard,
but did not - Mt 21:30
• Ananias and Sapphira falsely state that they had sold their
land for a given sum - Ac 5:1-10
• Stephen's accusers, who falsely accused him of blaspheming
Moses and God - Ac 6:11-14
• Paul's traducers, falsely accusing him of treason to Caesar
- Ac 16:20,21; 17:5-7; 24:5; 25:7,8
• The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies
- Tit 1:12
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ACCUSATION,
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CONSPIRACY
• See WITNESS
• See
HYPOCRISY
• See
PERJURY
• See FALSE
TEACHERS,
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