21 Bible Verses about People Possessing Other Things

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Genesis 23:17-18

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it, Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.

Genesis 23:20

And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

Genesis 26:20

But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.

Genesis 31:43

Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

Ezekiel 7:24

For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.

Genesis 47:20

So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.

Numbers 22:30

And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No.

1 Kings 20:3

And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine.

Genesis 48:5

And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

Ezekiel 35:10

Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:

Song of Solomon 2:16

My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

Song of Solomon 6:3

I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 7:10

I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

Ezekiel 29:3

Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

Ezekiel 29:9

And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.

Ezekiel 36:12

Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.

Ezekiel 46:17

And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs.

Amos 2:10

And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.

2 Samuel 16:18

And Hushai said to Absalom, Not so; I am for that man whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have taken as king, and I will take my place with him.

Exodus 21:16

Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

Job 20:28

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

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