Quotes about Deception
When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
— Deuteronomy 18:22
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
— Deuteronomy 23:4
For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
— Deuteronomy 25:16
You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
— Deuteronomy 28:30
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
— Deuteronomy 29:4
They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
— Deuteronomy 32:17
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
— Joshua 2:4
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
— Joshua 7:21
They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
— Joshua 8:6
and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
— Joshua 8:19
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
— Joshua 9:3
acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.
— Joshua 9:4