37 occurrences

'Possessions' in the Bible

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot {his nephew}, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and all the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsAbraham

And the land could not {support them} [so as] to live together, because their possessions were [so] many that they were not able to live together.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Calling And LifeLiving TogetherPeople Providing

So they took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and they left.

Verse ConceptsGathering Food

And they took Lot, the son of the brother of Abram, and his possessions, and left. (Now he had been living in Sodom.)

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Escaping

And he brought back all the possessions. And he also brought back Lot, his {relative}, and his possessions, and the women and the people as well.

Verse ConceptsRestoring ThingsTaking Other People

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but the possessions take for yourself."

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Characteristics OfSlavery, In Ot

And also the nation that they serve I will judge. Then afterward they shall go out with great possessions.

Verse ConceptsLeaving Egyptpossessions

And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsDriving

For you have searched all my possessions and what did you find among all the possessions of my household? Set it before my kinsmen and your kinsmen that they may decide between the two of us!

Verse ConceptsNot FindingIn Men's Presence

And he took them and sent them across the stream. Then he sent across all his possessions.

For their possessions were {too many to live together}, so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialPeople ProvidingWealthy Peoplepossessions

{Do not worry} about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

Verse ConceptsLooking Backpossessions

And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalPeople Multiplying

All consecrated possessions in Israel will be for you.

Verse ConceptsUnder The Ban

The cities will be theirs to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their domestic animals, for their possessions, and their animals.

However, Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle and the second [best] of the young fatlings and {all that was valuable}; they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But all the possessions that were despised or worthless, they utterly destroyed.

Verse ConceptsFatnessCovetousness, Example OfAnnihilation

Then God said to Solomon, "Because this was with your heart and you did not ask for wealth, possessions, honor, and the lives of your enemies, and also did not ask for {long life}, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge that you might judge my people over whom I have made you king,

Verse ConceptsAffluenceMaking DecisionsWealth And Prosperity

wisdom and knowledge is given to you. And I will [also] give to you wealth, possessions, and honor, the like of which was not had by the kings who [were] before you, nor will there be the like after you."

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPresent, TheRiches, Nature OfGifts From God, TemporalRiches

When Jehoshaphat came with his people to plunder their booty, they found among them in abundance possessions, corpses, and precious items. And they took plunder for themselves {until they could carry no more}. And they were three days in plundering the booty, for it [was] abundant.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of Wargatheringjewelry

behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

Verse ConceptsTragedy

And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz his youngest son.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

And the gift of the king [was] out of his own possessions for the burnt offerings--the burnt offerings for the morning and the evening and for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and appointed feasts, as is written in the law of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsNew Moon Festival

And he made cities for himself, and livestock of sheep and abundant cattle, for God had given to him very abundant possessions.

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of Sin

And let every survivor, from wherever he {resides} be assisted by the men of that place with silver and gold, with possessions and domestic animals, and with the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem."

Verse ConceptsCollectionsGiving To The PoorFree Will

And all of their neighbors {helped them} with objects of silver, gold, possessions, domestic animal , and with valuable gifts--besides all of [the] freewill offering.

Verse ConceptsGiving To The Poor

I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava to humble ourselves before our God in order to seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and our possessions.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Practice OfAttitudes Of HumilityJourneyRepentance, Examples OfRivers And StreamsTeachablenessCanalsHumbling OneselfFastingFasting And Prayer

Anyone who did not come within three days, by decision of the officials and elders, all of his possessions would be devoted to God, and he himself would be excluded from the assembly of exiles.

Verse ConceptsCriminalselders, as community leadersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfConfiscationAnarchyExcommunication

I also shook out my garment and said, "This is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise.

Verse ConceptsAmenEmptyingPeople ShakingPeople Abandoning People

He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.

Verse ConceptsTransient WealthDrawbacks To Riches

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

Verse ConceptsBusynessFutilityWealthHuman IgnoranceRest, PhysicalRiches, Ungodly Use OfTreasureCare, WorldlyCovetousness, Nature ofNot Knowing The FutureDrawbacks To Richesgathering

He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,

Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To People

This indeed is a gift of God: everyone to whom God gives wealth and possessions, he also empowers him {to enjoy them}, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in [the fruit of] his toil.

Verse ConceptsGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodEating Drinking And RejoicingGod Gives WealthRichesthe Gifts of GodBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingspossessionsempowermenthardwork

God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it--instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This [is] vanity--indeed, it [is] a grievous ill!

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourSuffering From ForeignersGod Gives WealthTragedyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingscatspossessionsempowerment

The grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, they themselves may eat them, and [also] all [the] consecrated possessions in Israel will be theirs.

Verse ConceptsGuilt OfferingGiving To GodFood For Priests DefinedRegulations For Cereal OfferingsRegulations For The Sin Offering

In [a time of] ease and in [the] rich parts of [the] province, he will come and he will do what {his predecessors} did not do; he will distribute plunder and spoil and possessions to them, and he will devise his plans against fortifications, but [only] {for a time}.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansShort Time For ActionDividing The Spoil

Then he will return to his land with many possessions, but his heart [will be set] against {the holy covenant}, and he will take action and he will return to his land.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSatan, Agents OfIndividuals going homeCovenant Made At Sinai

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Ownership (5 instances)
Possession (347 instances)
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