TOPICAL BIBLE
Covetousness
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2 Kings 5:27yea, the leprosy of Naaman doth cleave to thee, and to thy seed,—to the age;’ and he goeth out from before him—leprous as snow.Nehemiah 5:1And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,Nehemiah 5:2yea, there are who are saying, ‘Our sons, and our daughters, we—are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.’Nehemiah 5:3And there are who are saying, ‘Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.’Nehemiah 5:4And there are who are saying, ‘We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards;Nehemiah 5:5and now, as the flesh of our brethren is our flesh, as their sons are our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards are to others.’Nehemiah 5:6And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words,Nehemiah 5:7and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, ‘Usury one upon another ye are exacting;’ and I set against them a great assembly,Nehemiah 5:8and say to them, ‘We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!’ and they are silent, and have not found a word.Nehemiah 5:9And I say, ‘Not good is the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?Nehemiah 5:10And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Give back, I pray you, to them, as to-day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, of the new wine, and of the oil, that ye are exacting of them.’Nehemiah 13:10And I know that the portions of the Levites have not been given, and they flee each to his field—the Levites and the singers, doing the work.Job 20:15Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.Job 31:24If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, ‘My trust,’Job 31:25If I rejoice because great is my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,Job 31:28It also is a judicial iniquity, For I had lied to God above.Psalm 10:3Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.Psalm 119:36Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.Proverbs 1:19So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.Proverbs 11:24There is who is scattering, and yet is increased, And who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.Proverbs 11:26Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.Proverbs 15:27A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.Proverbs 21:25The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.Proverbs 21:26All the day desiring he hath desired, And the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.Proverbs 22:16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich—only to want.Proverbs 23:4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.Proverbs 23:5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.Proverbs 30:8Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,Proverbs 30:9Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, ‘Who is Jehovah?’ And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.Ecclesiastes 1:3What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?Ecclesiastes 1:4A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.Ecclesiastes 1:5Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.Ecclesiastes 1:6Going unto the south, and turning round unto the north, turning round, turning round, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind hath returned.Ecclesiastes 1:7All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.Ecclesiastes 1:8All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.Ecclesiastes 4:8There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, ‘For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?’ This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.Ecclesiastes 5:10Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.Ecclesiastes 5:11In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.Isaiah 5:8Woe to those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!Isaiah 56:11And the dogs are strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding—and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.Jeremiah 6:13For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,Jeremiah 8:10Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.Jeremiah 17:11A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end—he is a fool.Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.Jeremiah 51:13O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain.Hosea 4:18Sour is their drink, They have gone diligently a-whoring, Her protectors have loved shame thoroughly.Hosea 10:1An empty vine is Israel, Fruit he maketh like to himself, According to the abundance of his fruit, He hath multiplied for the altars, According to the goodness of his land, They have made goodly standing-pillars.Micah 2:2And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.Micah 3:11Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, ‘Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.’Micah 7:3On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking—also the judge—for recompence, And the great—he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.Habakkuk 1:15Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.Habakkuk 1:16Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat.Habakkuk 2:5And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,Habakkuk 2:6Do not these—all of them—against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?Habakkuk 2:7Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?Habakkuk 2:8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man’s blood, and of violence to the land, To the city, and to all dwelling in it.