OT.filter - bes extort:

bes@Judges:18:7 @ And the five men went on, and came to Laisa; and they saw the people in the midst of it dwelling securely, at ease as is the manner of the Sidonians, and there is no one (note:)Here probably diatrepwn and ekpiezwn both come under the Hebrew Mylkm and ekpiezwn and yhsaurouv both under rue(:note) perverting or shaming a matter in the land, no heir extorting treasures; and they are far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with any one.

bes@Nehemiah:5:14 @ From the day that (note:)i. e., Artaxerxes the king(:note) he charged me to be their ruler in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Arthasastha, twelve years, I and my brethren ate not provision extorted from them.

bes@Nehemiah:5:15 @ But as for the former acts of extortion wherein those who were before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachms for bread and wine; and the very outcasts of them (note:)Gr. exercise(:note) exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

bes@Nehemiah:5:18 @ And there came to me for one day one calf, and I had six choice sheep and a goat; and every ten days wine in abundance of all sorts: yet with these I required not the bread of extortion, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

bes@Proverbs:30:33 @ Milk out milk, and there shall be butter, and if thou wing one’s nostrils there shall come out blood: so if thou extort words, there will come forth quarrels and strifes.

bes@Isaiah:3:12 @ O my people, your exactors (note:)Gr. glean you(:note) strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

bes@Isaiah:14:4 @ And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, (note:)Alex. +’and thou shalt say in that day’(:note) How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

bes@Amos:2:8 @ And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk (note:)Gr. wine of false accusations(:note) wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.

bes@Zephaniah:3:5 @ But the just Lord is in the midst of her, and he will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning he will bring out his judgement to the light, and it is not hidden, and he knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.