Joshua 7:20-21
20And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly aI have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did: 21when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.” 1 Samuel 15:9
9 cBut Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain
and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction. 1 Samuel 15:21
21 eBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”2 Kings 5:20
20 fGehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. gAs the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”Mark 14:5
5For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii ▼▼A denarius was a day’s wage for a laborer
and igiven to the poor.” And they jscolded her. John 12:5-6
5“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii ▼▼A denarius was a day’s wage for a laborer
and lgiven to the poor?” 6He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and mhaving charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 2 Peter 2:15
15Forsaking the right way, nthey have gone astray. They have followed othe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved pgain from wrongdoing,
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