Shoes
27 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
17 sections
- (Having Blood On) of Being Engaged in War and Slaughter
- (Taken off) an Ignominious and Servile Condition
- (Thrown Over a Place) Subjection
- Bearing, for Another a Degrading office, Only Performed By
- Bound Round the Feet with Latchets or Strings
- Called Sandals
- Customs Connected With: A Man Who Refused to Marry a Deceased Brother's Wife
- Customs Connected With: The Right of Redemption Resigned by a Man's Giving One of
- Early Use of
- Loosing of, for Another a Degrading office
- Often Given As Bribes
- Soles of, Sometimes Plated with Brass or Iron
- The Apostles Prohibited from Taking for Their Journey More,
- The Jews: Never Wore, in Mourning
- The Jews: Put off, when They Entered Sacred Places
- The Jews: Put On, Before Beginning a Journey
- Worn out by a Long Journey
(Having Blood On) of Being Engaged in War and Slaughter
- 1 Kings 2:5 Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me— what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with …
(Taken off) an Ignominious and Servile Condition
- Isaiah 47:2 Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- Jeremiah 2:25 You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
(Thrown Over a Place) Subjection
- Psalm 60:8 Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
- Psalm 108:9 Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
Bearing, for Another a Degrading office, Only Performed By
- Matthew 3:11 I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Bound Round the Feet with Latchets or Strings
Called Sandals
Customs Connected With: A Man Who Refused to Marry a Deceased Brother's Wife
- Deuteronomy 25:9–10 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.” …
Customs Connected With: The Right of Redemption Resigned by a Man's Giving One of
- Ruth 4:7–8 Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel. …
Early Use of
- Genesis 14:23 that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Loosing of, for Another a Degrading office
Often Given As Bribes
- Amos 2:6 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
- Amos 8:6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
Soles of, Sometimes Plated with Brass or Iron
- Deuteronomy 33:25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”
The Apostles Prohibited from Taking for Their Journey More,
- Matthew 10:10 Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
- Mark 6:9 and to wear sandals, but not a second tunic.
- Luke 10:4 Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone along the road.
The Jews: Never Wore, in Mourning
- 2 Samuel 15:30 But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.
- Isaiah 20:2–3 the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot. …
- Ezekiel 24:17 Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
- Ezekiel 24:23 Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.
The Jews: Put off, when They Entered Sacred Places
- Exodus 3:5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
- Joshua 5:15 The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
The Jews: Put On, Before Beginning a Journey
- Exodus 12:11 This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
Worn out by a Long Journey
- Joshua 9:5 They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
- Joshua 9:13 These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey.”
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.