We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
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We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
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Passages linked to Proverbs 1:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Timothy 6:9-10 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Job 24:2-3 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Luke 12:15 He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
- Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
- Isaiah 10:13-14 For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers. My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
- Jeremiah 22:16-17 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh. But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
- Nahum 2:12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
- Haggai 2:9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
- Revelation 18:9-16 The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning, standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’ The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more: merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls. The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we…
Pro 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Ver. 13. We shall find all precious substance.] But those that rake together, rem, rem, quocunque modo rem, that count all good fish that comes to net, will in the end catch the devil and all.
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Fill our houses with spoil] Not considering that they "consult shame to their houses by cutting off many people, and sinning against their own souls." {Hab 2:10} He that brings home a pack of cloths infected with plague, hath no such great booty of it.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As our danger is little, so our profit will…
As our danger is little, so our profit will be great.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain We shall find all precious substance,.... Among one or…
We shall find all precious substance,.... Among one or another we meet with; gold and silver and precious stones, everything that is valuable; not considering that hereby they were in danger of losing the more precious substance, their immortal souls; and the most precious substance of all, the enjoyment of God, and happiness with him to all eternity, which is the "more enduring substance": the things of this world, properly speaking, are not substance, though wicked men so judge them; they are things that are not; nor are they "precious", in comparison of spiritual and heavenly things; but they are what carnal men set a high price and value upon, and risk the loss of their name, lives, and souls for;
we shall fill our houses with spoil; Aben Ezra interprets this of garments; but it may not only design the garments taken from the persons robbed and killed; but also their money, commodities, and goods they were travelling with, which in time would be so large as to fill everyone of their houses; covetousness lies at the bottom of all this wickedness; the love of money is the root of all evil.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The second form of temptation (see Pro 1:10 note)…
The second form of temptation (see Pro 1:10 note) appeals to the main attraction of the robber-life, its wild communism, the sense of equal hazards and equal hopes.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. Precious substance — Splendid wealth.
13. Precious substance — Splendid wealth.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain We shall find all precious substance. This verse carries…
We shall find all precious substance. This verse carries on the proposal of the sinners one step further, and puts forward a third enticement, viz. that of" the profit of crime, or the prospect of immediate riches, before youth to join in crime. A short cut to wealth, and to the acquirement of that which costs others long years of steady application and carefulness, is a strong inducement (Wardlaw). We shall find; axmni (nim"tza), from axm (matza ), properly "to reach to," and "to find," in the sense of "to come upon;" cf. Latin invenio. Substance (wOh, hon); i.e. substance in the sense of riches. The radical meaning of Wh (hun), from which it is derived, is the same as in the Arabic word, "to be light, easy, to be in easy circumstances, and so to be rich" (Gesenius). In its abstract sense, hon, "substance," means ease, comfort, and concretely riches which bring about that result (see also Fleischer, as quoted by Delitzsch); cf. the LXX kthsiv , i.e. collectively, possessions, property. The Piscatoris Version, for "precious substance," reads divitias, "riches." Precious; rqy (yakar), properly "heavy," is found with wOh (hon), "substance," in Pro_12:27 and Pro_24:4. The collocation of the ideas of lightness and heaviness in these two words is striking, but we need not necessarily suppose that any oxymoron is intended, as Schnltens. Such combinations occur in other languages, and reside more in the radical meanings of the words than in the mind or intention of the writer or speaker. We shall fill our houses with spoil; i.e. they promise not only finding, but full possession (Gejerus, Muffet). Spoil; llv (shalal), from llv (shalal), same as the Arabic verb "to draw," and hence "to strip off" (Gesenius); and equivalent to the Greek skula (LXX), the arms stripped off a slain enemy, spoils, and the Latin spolia (Vulgate). Shalal is used generally, as here, for "prey," "booty". (Gen_49:27 Exo_15:9) Our gains, say the robbers, will not only be valuable, but numerous and plentiful.
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