Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
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Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
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Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
Genesis 11:4
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
Deuteronomy 8:7
For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 8:8
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deuteronomy 8:10
You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
Judges 18:10
When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
Job 21:11
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
Psalms 17:14
from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
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Genesis 12:5
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
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Genesis 12:16
He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 23:6
“Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.”
Genesis 24:35
Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 26:13
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Genesis 31:7
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
Genesis 31:8
If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore speckled. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Genesis 33:11
Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
Genesis 36:7
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
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Genesis 15:17
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
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Genesis 17:13
He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
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Genesis 35:26
The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Daniel 9:24
“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
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Exodus 12:49
One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
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Exodus 24:5
He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
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1 Kings 4:21
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
1 Kings 4:24
For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides around him.
1 Kings 4:26
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Kings 4:27
Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.
1 Kings 10:5
the food of his table, the sitting of his servants, the attendance of his officials, their clothing, his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house, there was no more spirit in her.
1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
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1 Kings 5:15
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains,
Nehemiah 7:57
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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1 Kings 7:8
His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the same construction. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
1 Kings 7:9
All these were of costly stones, even of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
1 Kings 7:10
The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings 7:11
Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
1 Kings 7:12
The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
2 Kings 16:17
King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
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2 Kings 3:4
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.
1 Chronicles 27:30
Over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite. Over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
2 Chronicles 26:10
He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plains. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
2 Chronicles 32:27
Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;
2 Chronicles 32:28
also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.
2 Chronicles 32:29
Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions.
Job 42:12
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
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Job 21:9
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Ecclesiastes 6:2
a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
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Psalms 4:6
Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
Psalms 4:7
You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
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Job 28:18
No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
Psalms 49:18
Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Matthew 13:45
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
Mark 8:37
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
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Proverbs 29:21
He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.
Proverbs 30:23
for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress.
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Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, 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 chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:16
This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
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Psalms 39:5
Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 39:7
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
Ecclesiastes 2:25
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes 5:6
Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
Ecclesiastes 5:7
For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
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2 Samuel 5:11
Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, with cedar trees, carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.
2 Samuel 7:2
the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
1 Kings 5:2
Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
1 Kings 7:1
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1 Kings 7:2
For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
1 Kings 7:3
It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.
1 Kings 7:4
There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:5
All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:6
He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.
1 Kings 7:7
He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
Jeremiah 22:14
who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.
Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
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Joel 1:20
Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
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Zechariah 11:5
Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
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Luke 17:28
Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
Luke 17:29
but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.
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