21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
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Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. …
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-26)We have in these verses, I. The discovery of Achan by the lot, which proved a perfect lot, though it proceeded gradually. Though we may suppose that Joshua slept the better, and with more ease and satisfaction, when he knew the worst of the disease of that body of which, under God, he was the head, and was put into a certain method of cure, yet he rose up early in the morning (Josh. 7:16), so much…
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