Quotes about Wealth
Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.
- 2 Samuel 15:1
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
- 2 Samuel 19:32
Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);
- 1 Kings 4:10
ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.
- 1 Kings 4:23
Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
- 1 Kings 4:26
Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
- 1 Kings 7:47
And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
- 1 Kings 9:14
They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
- 1 Kings 9:28
She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
- 1 Kings 10:2
the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
- 1 Kings 10:5
Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such an abundance of spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:10
(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
- 1 Kings 10:11