The White Man Steals Land

Question 1

1 Maccabees 15:33

Answer 1

Then answered Simon, and said unto him, We have neither taken other men’s land, nor holden that which appertaineth to others, but the inheritance of our fathers, which our enemies had wrongfully in possession a certain time.

Question 2

Matthew 11:12

Answer 2

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

Question 3

Isaiah 5:8

Answer 3

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

Question 4

Deuteronomy 27:17

Answer 4

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Question 5

Deuteronomy 19:14

Answer 5

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Question 6

Job 24:2

Answer 6

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Question 7

Proverbs 22:28

Answer 7

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Question 8

Proverbs 23:10

Answer 8

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Question 9

Micah 2:2

Answer 9

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Question 10

Habakkuk 2:5-8

Answer 10

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Question 11

Nahum 3:1

Answer 11

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

Question 12

Habakkuk 2:12

Answer 12

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

Question 13

Deuteronomy 28:30

Answer 13

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

Question 14

Psalms 49:11

Answer 14

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Question 15

Obadiah 1:5

Answer 15

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

Question 16

John 10:10

Answer 16

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Question 17

Ezekiel 24:9

Answer 17

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

Question 18

Job 20:19

Answer 18

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;