You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
Now it happened when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
the LORD delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
"'You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
"Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
"'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;
or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
"But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.
Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.
He entered and was passing through Jericho.
There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
Jesus said to his disciples, "Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus' disciple came.
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Next to him built the men of Jericho. Next to them built Zaccur the son of Imri.
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.
The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."
the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.
With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor have this in common: the LORD is the maker of them all.
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive.
The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.
both low and high, rich and poor together.
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--
But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.
"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
the LORD, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.
I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
"I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
He said, "Blessed are you by the LORD, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.
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