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• General scriptures concerningNehemiah 5:1–13Job 21:7–15Job 27:13–23Job 31:24Job 31:25Job 31:28Psalms 49:16Psalms 49:17Psalms 52:1–7Psalms 73:3–22Proverbs 14:20Proverbs 18:11Proverbs 18:23Proverbs 28:11Ecclesiastes 5:13Ecclesiastes 5:14Ecclesiastes 5:19Ecclesiastes 5:20Jeremiah 5:7–9Jeremiah 5:27–29
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• INSTANCES OF
• AbrahamGenesis 13:2Genesis 24:35
• Solomon1 Kings 10:23
• Hezekiah2 Kings 20:12–18
• JOBJob 1:3
• Joseph of ArimathaeaMatthew 27:57
• ZacchaeusLuke 19:2

The passages, in Bible order (48)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 13:2

   And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 13:21 voice

   "He was very rich," as is natural for one who was not lacking in any good thing, who did not covet the goods of others, because he lacked nothing of what he would have wished to regard as his own. For this is what it means to be rich: to have what is sufficient to satisfy one's own desires. Frugality has a measure. Richness does not. Its measure is in the will of the seeker. He was rich in cattle, in silver and gold. What does this mean?

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2. Genesis 24:35

   “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 24:351 voice

   “And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly,....

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3. 1 Kings 10:23

   So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 10:231 voice

   “So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. In which he was an eminent type of Christ; see Eph 3:8.

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4. 2 Kings 20:12–18

   At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 20:12–181 voice

   “At that time Berodachbaladan,.... He is called Merodachbaladan, Isa 39:1, so here in the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; See Gill on Isa 39:1; and by Metasthenes (z) his father is called Merodach, and he Ben Merodach, who reigned twenty one years, and his father fifty two; from hence to the end of 2Ki 20:12 the same account is given in the same words as in Isa 39:1 throughout, except in 2Ki 20:13, where it is, "hearkened unto them", and there, "glad of them"; heard the letter the ambassadors brought with pleasure; see the notes there.

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5. Nehemiah 5:1–13

   About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

   ›Commentary on Nehemiah 5:1–131 voice

   “And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives, etc. Indeed, the people desired to build the city wall, but due to the great famine, they were hindered from the sacred work. This famine was caused not only by the shortage of …

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6. Job 1:3

   and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

   ›Commentary on Job 1:31 voice

   “HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household.

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7. Job 21:7–15

   Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

   ›Commentary on Job 21:7–151 voice

   “Ver. 7. Wherefore do the wicked live, are lifted up, and strengthened by riches? 45. For except the patience of God bore with them, they would never live long in their sins. For they are 'lifted up by riches,' when they first begin to be powerful, but they are 'strengthened,' when they are permitted to continue long in this life. Since those whose substance uplifts them, length of days strengthens in the pride of their power. Or surely they are said to be lifted up and strengthened, in that they are 'lifted up' by honours, 'strengthened' by substance.

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8. Job 27:13–23

   This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

   ›Commentary on Job 27:13–231 voice

   “Consider that since God is the Creator and Governor of all things, all receive something from him like an inheritance from a father. Evil men receive from God the temporal goods of this world as their share and their inheritance, and Wisdom speaks in their …

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9. Job 31:24

   If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

   ›Commentary on Job 31:241 voice

   “After Job excused himself from injustice (v.5) and lack of mercy (v.16), he now excuses himself from the inordinate affection for riches. This can come about in two ways. In one way, when man trusts too much in riches, and he excludes this saying, "If …

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10. Job 31:25

    if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

    ›Commentary on Job 31:251 voice

    “If I rejoiced over my great wealth, and because mine hand found much. For holy men in the wofulness of this pilgrimage, because that Appearance of their Creator, which they long after, they are not yet suffered to contemplate at all, account all the fulness of the present life as destitution, because nothing out of God suffices the mind which really seeks after God; and it is very often the case that to such persons their very abundance itself becomes exceedingly burthensome, because this thing alone they bear as a grievance, that in hastening to their country they carry many things on the journey.

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11. Job 31:28

    this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

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    “If I saw the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my heart hath secretly rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth; which is an exceeding iniquity, and denial against the Most High God. There is no doubt that both these two luminaries, which are commissioned to ministrations for man, are called 'the hosts of heaven.' Into the worshipping whereof we know that numbers have fallen, as Scripture is witness; as where it is written, And worshipped all the host of heaven.

    “Which is the chiefest iniquity, and denial against the Most High God. For it is clear that he does deny Him, when setting at nought His grace, he claims to himself the powers of good practice. Which too is rightly called as well 'the chiefest iniquity' because every act of sin which is from infirmity destroyeth not hope, seeing that it asks forgiveness from the Judge Above. But presuming on our own goodness is so much the worse in desperateness, the further it is removed from humility.

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12. Psalms 49:16

    Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.

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13. Psalms 49:17

    For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 49:171 voice

    “Do not be troubled when you hear that the glory of someone's house has increased. Think deeply about it, and you will see that a house is empty if it is not filled with faith.… Adam, by his ruin, left us void and empty, but Christ's grace has filled the void. Christ emptied himself so that the fullness of virtue might live in human flesh.

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14. Psalms 52:1–7

    Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 52:1–71 voice

    “The 33rd Psalm was spoken by David when he "changed his countenance before Abimelech, and he sent him away, and he left." The current Psalm would be the one following that Psalm in historical sequence. For the Scripture says in Kingdoms, "And one of the servants of Saul was there that day." And this indicates the time at which David came into the house of Abimelech and ate the "loaves of offering," receiving them from the high priest.

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15. Psalms 73:3–22

    For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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    Indeed, in what follows, David describes his own experience when he says, "But my feet were almost moved, my steps had well nigh slipped, for I was envious in the case of sinners, when I saw the peace of sinners." He is surely not speaking of bodily feet and bodily steps but of the uprightness of the heart and of the step concerning which he says in another passage, "Let not the foot of pride come to me and let not the hand of sinners move me."

    “For I was envious at the foolish,....

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16. Proverbs 14:20

    The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 14:201 voice

    “The poor is hated even of his own neighbour,.... As well as of strangers; that is, he is shy of him; he does not care to take any notice of him, or be friendly with him, lest he should be burdensome to him.

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