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Fair business transactions are essential to distribute the benefits of God’s goodness between individuals and nations. Scripture insists on honesty in trade and warns against abuses.
Lev 25:14 Land transactions required the approval of the ruler of the state; 2Ki 4:7; 2Ki 7:1; Ne 3:31-32 The good wife’s trade: Pr 31:13-18,24
Zep 1:11; Mt 21:12 pp Mk 11:15-16 pp Lk 19:45 pp Jn 2:14-16 trade in Jerusalem in Jesus Christ’s day
Under Solomon 1Ki 9:26-28 pp 2Ch 8:17-18 See also 1Ki 10:14-15 pp 2Ch 9:13-14 Transit taxes were imposed on inter-state trade. Also some taxes were owed to the state by merchants for some kinds of trade; 1Ki 10:28-29 pp 2Ch 1:16-17; 2Ch 9:21; SS 3:6-7
Under Jehoshaphat 1Ki 22:48 pp 2Ch 20:35-37 Soon afterwards the port of Ezion Geber passed back into the hands of Edom (see 2Ki 8:20).
In the Psalms Ps 107:23
Hittites Ge 23:16
Ishmaelites Ge 37:25
Midianites See also Ge 37:28
Damascus 1Ki 20:34
Tyre and the surrounding nations Isa 23:8 See also Eze 27:1-36
Nineveh Na 3:16
Ancient Babylon Eze 16:29; Eze 17:4
Babylon the Great Rev 18:9-24 See also Rev 18:2-3
Lev 19:35-36 See also Dt 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; Pr 16:11; Pr 20:10,23
Dishonesty Am 8:4-5 See also Eze 28:18; Hos 12:7; Mic 6:10-11
Oppression Job 20:18-19; Eze 28:16
Overconfidence Jas 4:13-16
Pride Eze 28:5 See also Isa 2:12,16; Isa 23:17-18
Sabbath trading Ne 10:31; Ne 13:15-22
The slave trade Ge 37:26-28,36; Ge 39:1; Am 2:6; Am 8:6; 1Ti 1:10; Rev 18:13
Sacrilegious trade Jn 2:14-16
Immoral trade Joel 3:3
Mt 13:45-46 See also Pr 23:23; Mt 25:14-18; Lk 19:13; 1Co 6:20
5242 | buying & selling |
5310 | exploitation |
5361 | justice, human |
5402 | market |
5407 | merchants |
5433 | occupations |
5512 | scales & balances |
5517 | seafaring |
5614 | weights & measures, laws |
7428 | Sabbath |
8275 | honesty |
8714 | dishonesty |