Nave’s Topical Bible
Deception
28 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- INSTANCES OF
- By Satan
- Abraham, in stating that Sarah was his sister
- Isaac, in stating that his wife was his sister
- Jacob and Rebekah, in imposing Jacob on his father, and Jacob's impersonating Esau
- Jacob's sons, in entrapping the Shechemites
- In representing to their father that Joseph had been Destroyed by wild beasts
- Joseph, in his ruse with his brothers
- The Gibeonites, in misrepresenting their habitat
- Ehud deceives Eglon, and kills him
- Delilah deceives Samson
- David feigns madness
- Amnon deceives Tamar by feigning sickness
- Hushai deceives Absalom
- Sanballat tries to deceive Nehemiah
- By Absalom
- When he avenged his sister
- When he began his conspiracy
- The old prophet
- Gehazi
- Job's friends
- Doeg
- Herod
- Pharisees
- Chief priests
- Lawyer
- Ananias and Sapphira
See DECEIT
See HYPOCRISY
See FALSEHOOD
See FALSE WITNESS
- SELF
See FLATTERY
Bible verses about “Deception”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 3:4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
- Genesis 12:13Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
- Genesis 20:2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Genesis 26:7And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
- Genesis 27:6And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
- Genesis 27:7Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
- Genesis 27:8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
- Genesis 27:9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
- Genesis 27:10And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.
- Genesis 27:11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
- Genesis 27:12My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
- Genesis 27:13And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
- Genesis 27:14And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
- Genesis 27:15And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
- Genesis 27:16And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
- Genesis 27:17And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
- Genesis 27:18And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
- Genesis 27:19And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
- Genesis 27:20And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.
- Genesis 27:21And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
- Genesis 27:22And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
- Genesis 27:23And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
- Genesis 34:13And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
- Genesis 34:14And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
- Genesis 34:15But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
- Genesis 34:16Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
- Genesis 34:17But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
- Genesis 34:18And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.
- Genesis 34:19And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
- Genesis 34:20And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 34:21These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
- Genesis 34:22Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 34:23Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
- Genesis 34:24And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
- Genesis 34:25And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
- Genesis 34:26And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.
- Genesis 34:27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
- Genesis 34:28They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
- Genesis 34:29And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
- Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.