And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold.

that I will not take from all your goods, from a string to a sandal strap, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich.

and the Lord has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great; and He has given him sheep, calves, silver, gold, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found barley in that year, and reaped one hundred fold, and the Lord blessed him.

Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of my [own] hand have worked for me this great wealth!

But you shall remember the Lord your God, that He gives you strength to get wealth; even that He may establish His covenant, which the Lord swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; He brings low, and lifts up.

He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory;

For those that bless Him shall inherit the earth; and they that curse Him shall be utterly destroyed.

And He blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, and He diminishes not the number of their cattle.

who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

to set him with princes, [even] with the princes of His people;

A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.

An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest you set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and you make the camp of the children of Israel an accursed thing, and destroy us.

But the children of Israel committed a great trespass, and kept back [part] of the accursed thing; and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zambri, the son of Zabdi, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing; and the Lord was very angry with the children of Israel.

And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and take the city by siege; for [they] are few.

And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men, and they pursued them from the gate, and destroyed them from the steep hill; and the heart of the people was alarmed and became as water.

And Joshua said, I pray, O Lord, why has Your servant brought this people over the Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? If only we would had remained, and settled ourselves beyond the Jordan!

And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round about and destroy us from off the land: and what will You do [for] Your great name?

The people have sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the accursed thing, and put it into their store.

Rise, sanctify the people, and tell them to sanctify themselves for tomorrow. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: The accursed thing is among you; you shall not be able to stand before your enemies, until you shall have removed the accursed thing from among you.

And the man who shall be pointed out shall be burned with fire, and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and has done wickedness in Israel.

And it was brought by their families, and the family of the Zarhites was pointed out.

And Joshua said to Achan, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession; and tell me what you have done, and do not hide it from me.

I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty shekels, and I desired them and took them; and behold, they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them.

And they brought them out of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and the elders of Israel, and they laid them before the Lord.

And Joshua said to Achan, Why have you destroyed us? The Lord destroy you this day! And all Israel stoned him with stones.

And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the Lord: Forasmuch as you have slain and taken possession, therefore thus says the Lord, In every place where the swine and the dogs have licked the blood of Naboth, there shall the dogs lick your blood; and the harlots shall wash themselves in your blood.

From where [have you come], Gehazi? And Gehazi said, Your servant has not been anywhere. And Elisha said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man returned from his chariot to meet you? And now you have received silver, and now you have received clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants, and maidservants.

The leprosy also of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, like snow.

For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? Will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?

has he any confidence before Him? Or will [God] hear him as he calls upon Him?

Behold, you all know that you are adding vanity to vanity.

And if their children are many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

Even if he should gather silver as dust, and prepare gold as clay,

And his house is gone like moths, and like a spider's web.

Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he flees desperately from out of His hand.

Shall not all these take up a parable against him? And a proverb to tell against him? And they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! How long? And who heavily loads his yoke.

Because you have plundered many nations, all the nations that are left shall plunder you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

You have devised shame to your house, you have utterly destroyed many nations, and your soul has sinned.

Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.

And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by My name, and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days.

You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.