Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
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Bible References
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Isaiah 5:8
Woe unto those that join house to house, that lay field to field, until they have done away with the borders! Will ye dwell alone in the midst of the earth?
Job 31:25
if I rejoiced because my wealth was being multiplied, and because my hand had gotten much;
Proverbs 18:12
Before being broken, the heart of man is haughty, and before coming into honour, comes being brought to humility.
Proverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of those that seek death.
Hosea 12:7
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
Nahum 2:9
Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the riches; honour, more than all the desirable furniture.
Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; stealing does not depart from her!
Habakkuk 2:5
Even more than he who is given over to wine, the transposer, the proud man, shall not remain, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and is as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathered unto him all the Gentiles and heaps unto him all the peoples;
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1 Kings 20:3
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
Proverbs 1:13
We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.
Isaiah 33:3
At the noise of the tumult the peoples fled; at the lifting up of thyself the Gentiles were scattered.