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 47:19–262 voices
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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 - Wards Customs.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 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
The scope of the whole is a comment on Pr 11:23. Thus liberality, by God's blessing, secures increase, while penuriousness, instead of expected gain, procures poverty.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
It is well said through Solomon, "He that hideth corn shall be cursed among the people." For to hide corn is to retain with one's self the words of sacred preaching. And every one that does so is cursed among the people, because through his fault of silence only he is condemned in the punishment of the many whom he might have corrected.
Gregory the Dialogist· The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 3, 604Patristic
- 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
Attend to yourself, poor one; for your soul is precious: and if mortal flesh, a temporary soul: and if you lack money, grace does not lack: and if there is no spacious house, widespread possession, heaven is open, the earth is free. The elements have been given to all in common, the ornaments of the world are open equally to the rich and the poor. Are not the faces of the heavens, adorned with shining stars, more beautiful than the most precious gold-leaf ceilings of luxurious houses? Are the riches of the rich wider than the expanses of the earth?
Ambrose of Milan· The Six Days of Creation, 6.52, 397Patristic
- 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
And they covet fields, and take them by violence,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed