Quotes about Wealth
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
— Deuteronomy 17:16
He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
— Deuteronomy 17:17
The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
— Deuteronomy 28:8
And concerning Asher he said: “May Asher be the most blessed of sons; may he be the most favored among his brothers and dip his foot in oil.
— Deuteronomy 33:24
For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”
— Joshua 6:19
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
— Joshua 7:21
saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”
— Joshua 22:8
“We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
— Judges 8:25
The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
— Judges 16:5
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
— 1 Samuel 2:5
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
— 1 Samuel 2:7
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
— 1 Samuel 25:2