Habakkuk 2:9
He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil!
Jeremiah 49:16
You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there, proclaims Jehovah.
Genesis 13:10-13
Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 19:26-38
Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
Burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them. Do not take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it. It is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
Joshua 7:21-26
When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.
1 Kings 21:2-4
Ahab said to Naboth: Give me your garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants. Since it is near my house let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange. If it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.
1 Kings 21:19-24
Say to him: 'Jehovah says: Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage?' Then say: 'Jehovah says: Your blood will become the drink of dogs! You will go to the same place where the dogs drink the blood of Naboth.'
2 Kings 5:20-27
when Elisha's servant Gehazi said to himself: My master has let Naaman get away without paying a thing! He should have accepted what that Syrian offered him. By the living God Jehovah I will run after him and get something from him.
Job 20:19-28
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor and left them destitute. He has violently seized houses he did not build.
Psalm 10:3-6
The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires. He blesses the covetous, which Jehovah abhors.
Psalm 49:11
Inwardly they think their houses are forever, their dwelling place to all generations. So they named their lands after themselves.
Psalm 52:7
Here is the man who did not make God his strength (refuge) (stronghold). He trusted in the abundance of his riches. He strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Proverbs 18:11-12
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!
Isaiah 47:7-9
You said: 'I will be a queen for a very long time!' You did not consider these things or remember their outcome.
Jeremiah 22:13-19
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Obadiah 1:4
Even though you place yourself as high as the eagle, and though you nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, said Jehovah!
Zechariah 5:1-4
I opened my eyes again and I saw a flying scroll.
Acts 1:17-25
He was numbered among us, and shared in this ministry.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! They went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the rebellious talk of Korah.