Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
The wealth
General references
Bible References
Leaveth
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.
Psalm 25:12
What man is he who fears LORD? Him he shall instruct in the way that he shall choose.
Psalm 102:28
The sons of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
Psalm 112:2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Psalm 128:6
Yea, see thou thy son's sons. Peace be upon Israel.
The wealth
Proverbs 28:8
He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
General references
Genesis 31:9
Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Deuteronomy 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.