Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

Bible References

General references

Genesis 36:6
Now Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the members of his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness).
Luke 12:17
And he began thinking to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place [large enough in which] to store my crops?’
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who [are not financially ethical and] crave to get rich [with a compulsive, greedy longing for wealth] fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction [leading to personal misery].