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1John 2:16
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Habakkuk 2:13
Is it not from the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?
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Joshua 7:21-25
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Babylon, five pounds of silver, and a bar of gold weighing a pound and a quarter, I coveted them and took them. You can see for yourself. They are concealed in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under the cloak.”So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there was the cloak, concealed in his tent, with the silver underneath.They took the things from inside the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread them out in the LORD’s presence.Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.Joshua said,“ Why have you brought us trouble? Today the LORD will bring you trouble!” So all Israel stoned them to death. They burned their bodies, threw stones on them,
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Genesis 13:5-7
Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock.( At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.)
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Genesis 12:16
He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.
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Nehemiah 5:17-18
There were 150 Jews and officials, as well as guests from the surrounding nations at my table.Each day, one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me. An abundance of all kinds of wine was provided every ten days. But I didn’t demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.
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Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better what the eyes see than wandering desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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Psalms 119:36-37
Turn my heart to your decrees and not to dishonest profit.Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless; give me life in your ways.
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1 Kings 5 13-1 Kings 5 16
Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel; the labor force numbered thirty thousand men.He sent ten thousand to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,not including his thirty-three hundred deputies in charge of the work. They supervised the people doing the work.
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Proverbs 23:5
As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
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Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young person, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desire of your eyes; but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.
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1 Kings 4 22-1 Kings 4 23
Solomon’s provisions for one day were 180 bushels of fine flour and 360 bushels of meal,ten fattened cattle, twenty range cattle, and a hundred sheep and goats, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and pen-fed poultry,
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Jeremiah 17:11
He who makes a fortune unjustly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay. In the middle of his life his riches will abandon him, so in the end he will be a fool.
