Deception
26 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
23 sections
- Abraham, in Stating That Sarah Was his Sister
- Amnon Deceives Tamar by Feigning Sickness
- Ananias and Sapphira
- Chief Priests
- David Feigns Madness
- Delilah Deceives Samson
- Doeg
- Ehud Deceives Eglon, and Kills Him
- Gehazi
- Herod
- Hushai Deceives Absalom
- 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
- Job's Friends
- Joseph, in his Ruse with his Brothers
- Lawyer
- Pharisees
- Sanballat Tries to Deceive Nehemiah
- The Gibeonites, in Misrepresenting Their Habitat
- The Old Prophet
- when he Avenged his Sister
- when he Began his Conspiracy
Abraham, in Stating That Sarah Was his Sister
- Genesis 12:13 Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
- Genesis 20:2 Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Amnon Deceives Tamar by Feigning Sickness
- 2 Samuel 13:6–14 So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.” …
Ananias and Sapphira
- Acts 5:1 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.
Chief Priests
- Mark 14:1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
David Feigns Madness
- 1 Samuel 21:10–15 That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. …
Delilah Deceives Samson
- Judges 16:4–20 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. …
Doeg
- Psalm 52:2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Ehud Deceives Eglon, and Kills Him
- Judges 3:15–30 And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. …
Gehazi
- 2 Kings 5:20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
Herod
- Matthew 2:8 And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”
Hushai Deceives Absalom
- 2 Samuel 16:15–19 Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. …
Isaac, in Stating That his Wife Was his Sister
- Genesis 26:7 But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is …
Jacob and Rebekah, in Imposing Jacob on his Father, and Jacob's Impersonating Esau
- Genesis 27:6–23 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, …
Jacob's Sons, in Entrapping the Shechemites
- Genesis 34:13–31 But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully. …
Job's Friends
- Job 6:15 But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
Joseph, in his Ruse with his Brothers
- Genesis 42:1 When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- Genesis 43:1 Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- Genesis 44:1 Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.
Lawyer
- Luke 10:25 One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Pharisees
- Matthew 22:16 They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no …
Sanballat Tries to Deceive Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 6:1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left— though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
The Gibeonites, in Misrepresenting Their Habitat
- Joshua 9:3–15 But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, …
The Old Prophet
- 1 Kings 13:18 Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
when he Avenged his Sister
- 2 Samuel 13:24–28 And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?” …
when he Began his Conspiracy
- 2 Samuel 15:7 After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.
Related topics
Deception by SatanDeception in Representing to Their Father That Joseph had been Destroyed by Wild BeastsCraftinessDelilahCovetousness in Defrauding Esau of His, Father's BlessingEglon
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.