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16 “Evil people may have piles of money
    and may store away mounds of clothing.

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Tyre has built a strong fortress
    and has made silver and gold
    as plentiful as dust in the streets!

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Teaching about Money and Possessions

19 “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal.

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Your wealth is rotting away, and your fine clothes are moth-eaten rags.

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“But soon their captives will taunt them.
    They will mock them, saying,
‘What sorrow awaits you thieves!
    Now you will get what you deserve!
You’ve become rich by extortion,
    but how much longer can this go on?’

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24 If you give up your lust for money
    and throw your precious gold into the river,

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27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:27 Hebrew the Shephelah.

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