Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

The Lord has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

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

Jacob Flees From Laban

Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”

Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing—and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”

The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.

Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”

A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.

So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice,

Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.

But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard.

Menahem exacted this money from Israel. Every wealthy person had to contribute fifty shekels of silver to be given to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and stayed in the land no longer.

Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.

He died at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth and honor. His son Solomon succeeded him as king.

God said to Solomon, “Since this is your heart’s desire and you have not asked for wealth, possessions or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king,

therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give you wealth, possessions and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have.”

The Lord established the kingdom under his control; and all Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, so that he had great wealth and honor.

Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab

Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honor, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.

Hezekiah had very great wealth and honor, and he made treasuries for his silver and gold and for his precious stones, spices, shields and all kinds of valuables.

For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty.

Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,

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

His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.

‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.’

He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,

Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?

Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;

“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.

The city of Tyre will come with a gift, people of wealth will seek your favor.

those who trust in their wealth and boast of their great riches?

For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.

People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that perish.

People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.

“Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”

This is what the wicked are like— always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.

Wealth and riches are in their houses, and their righteousness endures forever.

Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;

lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.

Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.

With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.

Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it.

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

A kindhearted woman gains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.

One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.

The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.

Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil.

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.

Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!

Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,

or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.

Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.

God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.

Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.

For before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’”

So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come.

Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations— their kings led in triumphal procession.

And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.

For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.

“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without charge, because of all your sins throughout your country.

My mountain in the land and your wealth and all your treasures I will give away as plunder, together with your high places, because of sin throughout your country.

I will deliver all the wealth of this city into the hands of their enemies—all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away as plunder and carry it off to Babylon.

“So my heart laments for Moab like the music of a pipe; it laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hareseth. The wealth they acquired is gone.

Violence has arisen, a rod to punish the wicked. None of the people will be left, none of that crowd— none of their wealth, nothing of value.

I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile it.

They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.

“‘Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your merchandise.

“‘Damascus did business with you because of your many products and great wealth of goods. They offered wine from Helbon, wool from Zahar

Your wealth, merchandise and wares, your mariners, sailors and shipwrights, your merchants and all your soldiers, and everyone else on board will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your shipwreck.

When your merchandise went out on the seas, you satisfied many nations; with your great wealth and your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.

By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.

Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army.

A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down.

The Kings of the South and the North

“Now then, I tell you the truth: Three more kings will arise in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others. When he has gained power by his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

When the richest provinces feel secure, he will invade them and will achieve what neither his fathers nor his forefathers did. He will distribute plunder, loot and wealth among his followers. He will plot the overthrow of fortresses—but only for a time.

The king of the North will return to his own country with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action against it and then return to his own country.

Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”

On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

You should not march through the gates of my people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over them in their calamity in the day of their disaster, nor seize their wealth in the day of their disaster.

“Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hooves of bronze, and you will break to pieces many nations.” You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!

“Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, “‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?’

Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. Though they build houses, they will not live in them; though they plant vineyards, they will not drink the wine.”

Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—great quantities of gold and silver and clothing.

The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.

The Parable of the Bags of Gold

“Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.

but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.

They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

“Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was very wealthy.

A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.

All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.

Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”

The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn

In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!’ “Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off.

They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out: “‘Woe! Woe to you, great city, where all who had ships on the sea became rich through her wealth! In one hour she has been brought to ruin!’