Genesis 12:16
16And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.Genesis 13:2
2 aNow Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.Genesis 13:5-7
5And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, 6so that bthe land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together, 7 cand there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time dthe Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.1 Kings 4:22-23
22Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors ▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, 23ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. 1 Kings 5:13-16
13King Solomon drafted fforced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. 14And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. gAdoniram was in charge of the draft. 15Solomon also hhad 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, 16besides Solomon’s 3,300 ichief officers who were over the work, jwho had charge of the people who carried on the work.Nehemiah 5:17-18
17Moreover, there were kat my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us. 18 lNow what was prepared at my expense ▼▼Or prepared for me
for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this nI did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people. Psalms 119:36-37
36 oIncline my heart to your testimonies,and not to pselfish gain!
37 qTurn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
and rgive me life in your ways.
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