Slander

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 19:16-21 OT

  If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; and the…

• Psalms 101:5 OT

  I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

• Proverbs 12:18 OT

  There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

• Proverbs 25:18 OT

  A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

• Genesis 31:1 OT

  Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

• 1 Samuel 22:9-11 OT

  Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the…

• 2 Samuel 10:3 OT

  But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to…

• 2 Samuel 16:3 OT

  The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”

• 1 Kings 21:13 OT

  The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and…

• Ezra 4:7-16 OT

  In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language. Rehum the chancellor and…

• Nehemiah 6:6 OT

  in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.

• Esther 3:8 OT

  Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it…

• Jeremiah 38:4 OT

  Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the…

• Matthew 11:18 NT

  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

• Matthew 11:19 NT

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

• Matthew 26:59-61 NT

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death; and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false…

• Mark 15:3 NT

  The chief priests accused him of many things.

• Acts 6:11 NT

  Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

• Acts 17:7 NT

  whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

• Acts 24:2 NT

  When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that prosperity is coming to this nation by your foresight,

• Acts 24:5 NT

  For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.