Joshua 7:21

World Messianic Bible British Edition

When I saw amongst the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

Cross References

Genesis 10:10

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

Genesis 34:27

Jacob’s sons came on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 6:2

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

2 Samuel 11:2

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

2 Kings 7:8

When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drank, then carried away silver, gold, and clothing and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.

Job 31:1

“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.”

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 23:31

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Isaiah 28:15

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

Isaiah 29:15

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Luke 12:15

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Luke 12:2

But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned amongst you, as becomes holy ones;

Ephesians 5:5

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Messiah and God.

Deuteronomy 7:25

You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Hebrews 13:5

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

James 1:15

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

Joshua 7:20

Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

Joshua 7:22

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

2 Peter 2:15

Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;