Joshua 7:21

Achan Judged

²⁰ And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done wrong against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done: ²¹ When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it. ²² So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.

Shekels of Silver

Babylon

Jericho

Shinar

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

Genesis 6:2

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

Genesis 10:10

And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Exodus 20:17

Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

2 Samuel 11:2

Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 11:6-17

And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

1 Kings 21:1-2

Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

2 Kings 5:20-27

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

Job 31:1

I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

Proverbs 4:23

And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

Proverbs 23:31

Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

Proverbs 28:22

He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

Isaiah 29:15

Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

Micah 2:1-2

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Habakkuk 2:9

A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

Matthew 5:28-29

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

Luke 12:2

But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

Romans 7:7-8

What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

Ephesians 5:3

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

Ephesians 5:5

Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Colossians 3:5

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

Hebrews 13:5

Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

James 1:15

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

2 Peter 2:15

Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

1 John 2:15-16

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.