Worldliness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning Jude 1:11-13,16,191 Samuel 8:191 Samuel 8:20Job 20:4–29Job 21:11–15Psalms 49:16–18Psalms 73:2–22Proverbs 14:12Proverbs 14:13Proverbs 15:21Proverbs 21:17Proverbs 23:20Proverbs 23:21Proverbs 27:1Proverbs 27:7Ecclesiastes 1:8Ecclesiastes 2:1–12Ecclesiastes 6:11Ecclesiastes 6:12Ecclesiastes 8:15–17Ecclesiastes 10:19
• See Covetousness
• See Pleasures
• See Riches
• INSTANCES OF
• EsauGenesis 25:30–34Hebrews 12:16
• JacobGenesis 25:31–34Genesis 27:36Genesis 30:37–43
• JudahGenesis 37:26Genesis 37:27
• IsraelitesNumbers 11:33Numbers 11:34Psalms 78:18Psalms 78:29–31
• Balaam Jude 1:11; with2 Peter 2:15Numbers 22Numbers 23Numbers 24
• Eli' s sons1 Samuel 2:12–17
• Gehazi2 Kings 5:21–27

The passages, in Bible order (108)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 25:30–34

   He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:30–342 voices

   “(Verse 30) And Esau said to Jacob: Give me a taste of that red stew, for I am famished. That is why he was called Edom. Red or tawny is called Edom in the Hebrew language. Therefore, from the fact that he sold his birthright for red food, he obtained the name Edom, which means tawny.

   “I am faint - It appears from the whole of this transaction, that Esau was so completely exhausted by fatigue that he must have perished had he not obtained some immediate refreshment. He had been either hunting or laboring in the field, and was now returning for the purpose of getting some food, but had been so exhausted that his strength utterly failed before he had time to make the necessary preparations.

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2. Genesis 25:31–34

   “First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:31–341 voice

   “Sell me this day thy birthright - What the בחרה bechorah or birthright was, has greatly divided both ancient and modern commentators. It is generally supposed that the following rights were attached to the primogeniture: 1. Authority and superiority over the rest of the family. 2. A double portion of the paternal inheritance. 3. The peculiar benediction of the father. 4. The priesthood, previous to its establishment in the family of Aaron.

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3. Genesis 27:36

   So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 27:362 voices

   “(Verse 36.) And Esau said, rightly is his name called Jacob: for he hath supplanted me these two times. Jacob is interpreted supplanter. And therefore, because he had deceived his brother by art, he alluded to the name. Therefore, he was called Jacob before, because he had taken hold of his brother's heel in his birth.

   “Is not he rightly named Jacob? - See note on Gen 25:26. He took away my birthright - So he might say with considerable propriety; for though he sold it to Jacob, yet as Jacob had taken advantage of his perishing situation, he considered the act as a species of robbery.

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4. Genesis 30:37–43

   Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 30:37–432 voices

   “Here is Jacob's policy to make his bargain more advantageous to himself than it was likely to be: and if he had not taken some course to help himself, it would have been an ill bargain indeed; which he knew Laban would never have considered, who did not consult any one's interest but his own.

   “The just man Jacob comes in like a hired hand and yet is the master who, in his ministry of preaching the gospel, gathered together a flock that is resplendent in the brilliance of its many signal virtues. Thus, when the flock came to drink, he would set before them in the troughs the bough of storax and walnut and that from the plane tree; those who felt desire for the mysteries of the most blessed Trinity that were prefigured there could engender offspring that were not at all discolored, by conceiving them in a devout mind.

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5. Genesis 37:26

   Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

   ›Commentary on Genesis 37:261 voice

   “What profit is it if we slay our brother? - It will be less guilt and more gain to sell him. And as Joseph was sold by the contrivance of Judah for twenty pieces of silver, so was our Lord Jesus for thirty, and by one of the same name too, Judas.

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6. Genesis 37:27

   Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.

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7. Numbers 11:33

   But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 11:332 voices

   “Chewed - Hebrew. cut off, namely from their mouths. A very great plague - Probably the pestilence. But the sense is, before they had done eating their quails, which lasted for a month.

   “The wrath of the Lord was kindled - In what way, and with what effects, we cannot precisely determine. Some heavy judgment fell upon those murmurers and complainers, but of what kind the sacred writer says nothing.

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8. Numbers 11:34

   So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 11:342 voices

   “Kibroth-hattaavah - Hebrew. the graves of lust, that is, of the men that lusted, as it here follows. And it notes that the plague did not seize upon all that eat of the quails, for then all had been destroyed, but only upon those who were inordinate both in the desire and use of them.

   “How is it that the graves of lust where the people fell in their devotion to flesh remain even to this day in the wilderness? Do we not read that the stupid people gorged themselves with quails until the wrath of God came upon them?

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9. Numbers 22:1

   Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

   ›Commentary on Numbers 22:11 voice

   “The plains - Hebrew ערבה ‛ărābâh; the word is the plural of that which is used to denote the whole depressed tract along the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and onward, where it is still called the Arabah (compare Num 21:4 note), to the Elanitic gulf. On this side Jordan by Jericho - Rather, across the Jordan of Jericho, i. e., that part of Jordan which skirted the territory of Jericho. This form of expression indicates the site of the camp in its relation to the well-known city of Jericho. See Deu 1:1.

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10. Numbers 23:1

    Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

    ›Commentary on Numbers 23:11 voice

    “Balaam, after the general custom of the pagan, prefaced his divinations by sacrifice. In the number of the altars regard was probably had to the number of the then known planets. Yet Balaam evidently intended his sacrifice as an offering to the true God.

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11. Numbers 24:1

    And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 24:11 voice

    “He went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments - We have already had occasion to observe that the proper meaning of the word נחש nachash is not easily ascertained; see Num 21:9 (note), and Gen 3:1 (note). Here the plural נחשים nechashim is rendered enchantments; but it probably means no more than the knowledge of future events.

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12. 1 Samuel 2:12–17

    Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:12–171 voice

    “The sons of Eli were sons of Belial - They were perverse, wicked, profligate men; devil’s children. They knew not the Lord. “They know! nor would an angel show Him; They would not know, nor choose to know Him.” These men were the principal cause of all the ungodliness of Israel. Their most execrable conduct, described 1Sa 2:13-17, caused the people to abhor the Lord’s offering. An impious priesthood is the grand cause of the transgressions and ruin of any nation; witness France, Germany, Spain, Ac., from 1792 to 1814.

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13. 1 Samuel 8:19

    Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.

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14. 1 Samuel 8:20

    Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 8:201 voice

    “May judge us - This appears to be a rejection of Samuel. Go out before us - Be in every respect our head and governor. And fight our battles - Be the general of our armies.

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15. 2 Kings 5:21–27

    So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”

    ›Commentary on 2 Kings 5:21–271 voice

    “So Gehazi followed after Naaman,.... As fast as he could: and when Naaman saw him running after him; which he might observe, looking back, or be informed of by some of his servants: he lighted down from the chariot to meet him; in honour to the prophet, whose servant he was: and said, is all well? fearing something ill had befallen Elisha; or he himself had done something wrong, which occasioned the servant to run after him.

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16. Job 20:4–29

    Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

    ›Commentary on Job 20:4–291 voice

    “Knowest thou not this of old - This is a maxim as ancient as the world; it began with the first man: A wicked man shall triumph but a short time; God will destroy the proud doer. Since man was placed upon earth - Literally, since Adam was placed on the earth; that is, since the fall, wickedness and hypocrisy have existed; but they have never triumphed long. Thou hast lately been expressing confidence in reference to a general judgment; but such is thy character, that thou hast little reason to anticipate with any joy the decisions of that day.

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