Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. Then he changed his mind. He said to the angel: Stop! That is enough! The angel was standing at the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite. David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people, all of whom were wearing sackcloth bowed low, with their faces touching the ground. David prayed: O God, I am the one who did wrong. I am the one who ordered the census. What have these poor people done? Jehovah, my God, punish my family, and me and spare your people. read more.
Jehovah's angel told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to Jehovah at Araunah's threshing place. David obeyed Jehovah's command and did what Gad told him to do. There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid. Araunah saw King David approaching. He left the threshing place and bowed low with his face touching the ground. David said to him: Sell me your threshing place so that I can build an altar to Jehovah, to stop the epidemic. I will give you the full price. Take it, Your Majesty, Araunah said, and do whatever you wish. Here are these bulls to burn as an offering on the altar. Here are the threshing boards to use as fuel and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you. The king answered: No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to Jehovah something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing. He paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place.

Because you are wise and understanding, you have made yourself rich. You saved gold and silver in your treasuries. Verse ConceptsWealthGoldSilverWorldly WisdomWisdom Gives Wealth

They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like garbage (like an abhorrent thing), because neither silver nor gold can save them when Jehovah pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin. Verse ConceptsAbilityTo DeliverdissatisfactionGoldThrowing AwaySatisfactionStomachsStumblingTreasureSalvation Not By WorksSending Things AwayThe Entrance Of SinThings Which Cannot SaveHindering God's WorkMoney's DeficienciesSaving Money


Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt. Verse ConceptsCopperBeltsPursesBrassLacking MoneyMoney Boxcats

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold, Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed



You know that we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found in the top of our sacks. Why should we steal silver or gold from your master's house? Verse ConceptsStealingIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Later, Joseph told the servant in charge of his house: Fill the men's grain sacks with as much as they can hold and put their money in the sacks. Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

He paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place. Verse ConceptsCoinageGoldweight

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I gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God that the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given: Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold, And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold. read more.
I said to them: You are holy to Jehovah and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are an offering freely given to Jehovah, the God of your fathers.

I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. Verse ConceptsMoney's Deficiencies

Surely the coastlands wait with hope for me. The ships from Tarshish are the first to bring your children from far away. They bring their silver and their gold with them to honor the name of Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, because he has honored you. Verse ConceptsHonorIslandsSeafaringShipsThe NavySea TravelGod Bestowing GloryPeople From Far Away

Therefore Jehovah sent an epidemic on the people of Israel, and seventy thousand of them died. Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. Then he changed his mind. He said to the angel: Stop! That is enough! The angel was standing at the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite. David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people, all of whom were wearing sackcloth bowed low, with their faces touching the ground. read more.
David prayed: O God, I am the one who did wrong. I am the one who ordered the census. What have these poor people done? Jehovah, my God, punish my family, and me and spare your people. Jehovah's angel told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to Jehovah at Araunah's threshing place. David obeyed Jehovah's command and did what Gad told him to do. There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid. Araunah saw King David approaching. He left the threshing place and bowed low with his face touching the ground. David said to him: Sell me your threshing place so that I can build an altar to Jehovah, to stop the epidemic. I will give you the full price. Take it, Your Majesty, Araunah said, and do whatever you wish. Here are these bulls to burn as an offering on the altar. Here are the threshing boards to use as fuel and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you. The king answered: No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to Jehovah something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing. He paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place. David built an altar to Jehovah there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He prayed, and Jehovah answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn the sacrifices on the altar.


Jehovah has greatly blessed my master and made him a rich man. He has given him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, silver, gold, male and female slaves, camels, and donkeys. Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialCowsGenerosity, God'sGoldSilverAbraham, In SocietyOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesSupplied With MoneyBlessed By GodMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

Because you are wise and understanding, you have made yourself rich. You saved gold and silver in your treasuries. Verse ConceptsWealthGoldSilverWorldly WisdomWisdom Gives Wealth

They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like garbage (like an abhorrent thing), because neither silver nor gold can save them when Jehovah pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin. Verse ConceptsAbilityTo DeliverdissatisfactionGoldThrowing AwaySatisfactionStomachsStumblingTreasureSalvation Not By WorksSending Things AwayThe Entrance Of SinThings Which Cannot SaveHindering God's WorkMoney's DeficienciesSaving Money

Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales. They hire a goldsmith to make it into a god. They bow down and worship it. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenPursesGoldHiringMetalworkersSkillGoldsmithsWeighingBowing To False GodsAmassing SilverGold TransferredNature Of Idolatrybalance


Do not take gold, silver, or copper money in your money belt. Verse ConceptsCopperBeltsPursesBrassLacking MoneyMoney Boxcats

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold, Verse ConceptsFutilityemptinessGoldMarketsRiches, Nature OfRiches, Description OfPossessions DecayingTransient WealthUseless EndeavourPeople Are CorruptibleMoney's Deficienciesfearlessliberationredeemed



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You know that we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found in the top of our sacks. Why should we steal silver or gold from your master's house? Verse ConceptsStealingIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Later, Joseph told the servant in charge of his house: Fill the men's grain sacks with as much as they can hold and put their money in the sacks. Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

He paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place. Verse ConceptsCoinageGoldweight

I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. Verse ConceptsMoney's Deficiencies

Surely the coastlands wait with hope for me. The ships from Tarshish are the first to bring your children from far away. They bring their silver and their gold with them to honor the name of Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, because he has honored you. Verse ConceptsHonorIslandsSeafaringShipsThe NavySea TravelGod Bestowing GloryPeople From Far Away

I gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God that the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given: Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold, And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

Solomon began to build Jehovah's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. Verse ConceptsCalvaryBeginningJerusalem, Significance OfKingsMountainsSolomon, Life OfThreshing FloorSolomon's TempleStarting To BuildThe First Temple

Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. Then he changed his mind. He said to the angel: Stop! That is enough! The angel was standing at the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite. David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people, all of whom were wearing sackcloth bowed low, with their faces touching the ground. David prayed: O God, I am the one who did wrong. I am the one who ordered the census. What have these poor people done? Jehovah, my God, punish my family, and me and spare your people. read more.
Jehovah's angel told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to Jehovah at Araunah's threshing place. David obeyed Jehovah's command and did what Gad told him to do. There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid. Araunah saw King David approaching. He left the threshing place and bowed low with his face touching the ground. David said to him: Sell me your threshing place so that I can build an altar to Jehovah, to stop the epidemic. I will give you the full price. Take it, Your Majesty, Araunah said, and do whatever you wish. Here are these bulls to burn as an offering on the altar. Here are the threshing boards to use as fuel and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you. The king answered: No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to Jehovah something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing. He paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place.

David saw by this that Jehovah answered his prayer. So he offered sacrifices on the altar at Araunah's threshing place.