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(swelling). The bag of
2 Kings 5:23; 12:10
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And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him. (2 Kings 5:23)
10
And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord. (2 Kings 12:10)
, was for holding money; that of
Deuteronomy 25:13-15
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Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
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But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (Deuteronomy 25:13‑15)
for carrying weights. Sack was the Hebrew grain-bag (
Gen. 42:25
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Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them. (Genesis 42:25)
). The shepherd’s bag was for carrying feeble lambs (
Zech. 11:15-17
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And the Lord said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
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For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
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Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. (Zechariah 11:15‑17)
). The bag of Judas was probably a small chest (
John 12:6; 13:29
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This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. (John 12:6)
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For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. (John 13:29)
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