From Nave’s Topical Bible
Monopoly
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 4Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Of landsIsaiah 5:8Micah 2:2
- By PharaohGenesis 47:19–26
- Of foodProverbs 11:26
The passages, in Bible order (4)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 47:19–26
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
Commentary on Genesis 47:19–261 voice
Buy us and our land for bread - In times of famine in Hindostan, thousands of children have been sold to prevent their perishing. In the Burman empire the sale of whole families to discharge debts is very common - Ward’s Customs.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Proverbs 11:26
The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.
Commentary on Proverbs 11:262 voices
He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him,.... That hoards it up for a better price, in hopes of a better market; and does not bring it out, and expose it to sale, when there is a scarcity of it; so the Targum adds, "in famine"; or, "in straits", as the Syriac version; in a time of distress through, famine: this will bring the curse of the poor upon him, who will imprecate the most dreadful things on him and his family.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
He that withholdeth corn - Who refuses to sell because he hopes for a dearth, and then he can make his own price. The people shall curse him - Yes, and God shall curse him also; and if he do not return and repent, he will get God’s curse, and the curse of the poor, which will be a canker in his money during time, and in his soul throughout eternity.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Isaiah 5:8
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
Commentary on Isaiah 5:82 voices
The jubilee restoration of possessions was intended as a guard against avarice. till there be no place--left for any one else. that they may be--rather, and ye be. the earth--the land.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Wo unto them that - lay field to field “You who lay field unto field” - Read תקריבו takribu, in the second person; to answer to the verb following. So Vulgate.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
Commentary on Micah 2:22 voices
And his house - His family, which by this means is left to poverty. And his heritage - And this is done against ancient right and possession, nay, in a case where God hath forbidden them to sell their heritage.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
They covet fields and houses, as Ahab did Naboth's vineyard. "Oh that such a one's field and house were mine! It lies convenient for me, and I would manage it better than he does; it is fitter for me than for him." 2.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan