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Hab. 2:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

Woe to him that γcoveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the δpower of evil!

or, gaineth an evil gain.

palm of the hand.

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that coveteth an evil covetousness.

or, that gaineth an evilgain.

Gen. 13:10‑13• ¹⁰And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.
¹¹And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:
¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents as far as Sodom.
¹³And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah. (Gen. 13:10‑13)

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Gen. 19:26‑38• ²⁶And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
²⁷And Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Jehovah;
²⁸and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, a smoke went up from the land as the smoke of a furnace.
²⁹And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
³⁰And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
³¹And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:
³²come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
³³And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.
³⁴And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.
³⁵And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.
³⁶And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
³⁷And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.
³⁸And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. (Gen. 19:26‑38)

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Deut. 7:25‑26• ²⁵The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver and gold that is on them and take it unto thee, lest thou be ensnared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
²⁶And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing. (Deut. 7:25‑26)

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Josh. 7:21‑26• ²¹I saw among the spoils a beautiful mantle of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a golden bar of fifty shekels weight, and I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
²²And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
²³And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before Jehovah.
²⁴Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the bar of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up into the valley of Achor.
²⁵And Joshua said, How hast thou troubled us! Jehovah will trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
²⁶And they raised over him a great heap of stones, which is there to this day. And Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Valley of Achor, to this day. (Josh. 7:21‑26)

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1 Kings 21:2‑4,19‑24• ²And Ahab spoke to Naboth saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, for it is near, by the side of my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; if it seem good to thee, I will give thee its value in money.
³And Naboth said to Ahab, Jehovah forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee!
⁴And Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word that Naboth the Jizreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and ate no bread.
¹⁹And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
²⁰And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, mine enemy? And he said, I have found thee; because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah.
²¹Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male, and him that is shut up and left in Israel;
²²and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
²³And of Jezebel also spoke Jehovah saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the moat of Jizreel.
²⁴Him that dieth of Ahab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat. (1 Kings 21:2‑4,19‑24)

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2 Kings 5:20‑27• ²⁰And Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman, this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; but as Jehovah liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat of him.
²¹And Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he sprang down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
²²And he said, All is well. My master has sent me saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.
²³And Naaman said, Consent to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his young men; and they bore them before him.
²⁴And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.
²⁵And he entered in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
²⁶And he said to him, Did not my heart go, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and bondmen, and bondwomen?
²⁷But the leprosy of Naaman shall fasten upon thee, and upon thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence leprous, as snow. (2 Kings 5:20‑27)

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Job 20:19‑28• ¹⁹For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
²⁰Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
²¹Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
²²In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
²³It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
²⁴If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
²⁵He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
²⁶All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
²⁷The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
²⁸The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger. (Job 20:19‑28)

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Jer. 22:13‑19• ¹³Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his earning;
¹⁴that saith, I will build me a wide house, and spacious upper chambers; and he cutteth out for himself windows; and it is wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
¹⁵Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.
¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
¹⁷But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.
¹⁸Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: They shall not lament for him, Ah, my brother! or, Ah, sister! They shall not lament for him, Ah, lord! or Ah, his glory!
¹⁹He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, dragged along and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. (Jer. 22:13‑19)

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Zech. 5:1‑4• ¹And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.
²And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying roll: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
³And he said unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off according to it on this side; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off according to it on that side.
⁴I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall lodge in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. (Zech. 5:1‑4)

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Acts 1:17‑25• ¹⁷for he was numbered amongst us, and had received a part in this service.
¹⁸(This man then indeed got a field with the reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
¹⁹And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)
²⁰For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his homestead become desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, Let another take his overseership.
²¹It is necessary therefore, that of the men who have assembled with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,
²²beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was taken up from us, one of these should be a witness with us of his resurrection.
²³And they appointed two, Joseph, who was called Barsabas, who had been surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
²⁴And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord, knower of the hearts of all, shew which one of these two thou hast chosen,
²⁵to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place. (Acts 1:17‑25)

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Jude 11• ¹¹Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. (Jude 11)

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Psa. 10:3‑6• ³For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.
⁴The wicked saith, in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!
⁵His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
⁶He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity. (Psa. 10:3‑6)

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Psa. 49:11• ¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names. (Psa. 49:11)

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Psa. 52:7• ⁷Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his avarice. (Psa. 52:7)

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Prov. 18:11‑12• ¹¹The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.
¹²Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; and before honour goeth humility. (Prov. 18:11‑12)

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Isa. 28:15• ¹⁵For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. (Isa. 28:15)

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Isa. 47:7‑9• ⁷and thou saidst, I shall be a mistress for ever; so that thou didst not take these things to heart, thou didst not remember the end thereof.
⁸And now hear this, thou voluptuous one, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, It is I, and there is none but me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know loss of children:
⁹yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments. (Isa. 47:7‑9)

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Jer. 49:16• ¹⁶Thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart, hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy nest high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 49:16)

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Obad. 4• ⁴Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith Jehovah. (Obad. 4)

power of evil.

Heb. palm of the hand.

• {v.9-11} The second woe pursues the matter more within. (“Habakkuk 2” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!