that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.

May God give you heaven’s dew and earth’s richness— an abundance of grain and new wine.

His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above.

“Asher’s food will be rich; he will provide delicacies fit for a king.

The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.

“‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

These are the regulations the Lord gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his young daughter still living at home.

However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,

So the five men left and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure. And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous. Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians and had no relationship with anyone else.

There was no one to rescue them because they lived a long way from Sidon and had no relationship with anyone else. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there.

May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

“The Lord bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

Nathan Rebukes David

The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.

The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle,

“Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”

The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon

When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the Lord, she came to test Solomon with hard questions.

King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.

They found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful and quiet. Some Hamites had lived there formerly.

King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.

He built villages and acquired great numbers of flocks and herds, for God had given him very great riches.

He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up.

well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow.

who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?