Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

General references

Bible References

When one came to an

Haggai 1:6
Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
Proverbs 3:9
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
Zechariah 8:10
For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

General references

Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain