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

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Gen. 19:26‑38• ²⁶But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
²⁷Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before Jehovah:
²⁸and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrha, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the country went up 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 the which Lot dwelt.
³⁰And Lot went up out of 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.
³¹{i}And 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:{/i}
³²{i}come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.{/i}
³³{i}And 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.{/i}
³⁴{i}And 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.{/i}
³⁵{i}And 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.{/i}
³⁶{i}And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.{/i}
³⁷{i}And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.{/i}
³⁸{i}And 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.{/i} (Gen. 19:26‑38)

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Deut. 7:25‑26• ²⁵{i}The 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.{/i}
²⁶{i}And 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.{/i} (Deut. 7:25‑26)

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Josh. 7:21‑26• ²¹When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then 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.
²²So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto 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 unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before Jehovah.
²⁴And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge 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 unto the valley of Achor.
²⁵And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
²⁶And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So Jehovah turned from the fierceness of His anger. {i}Therefore the name of that place was called, The Valley of Achor, to this day.{/i} (Josh. 7:21‑26)

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1 Kings 21:2‑4,19‑24• ²{i}And 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.{/i}
³{i}And Naboth said to Ahab, Jehovah forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee!{/i}
⁴{i}And 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.{/i}
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 dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
²⁰And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work 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 man child, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
²²and will make thine 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 spake Jehovah, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
²⁴Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. (1 Kings 21:2‑4,19‑24)

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2 Kings 5:20‑27• ²⁰{i}And 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.{/i}
²¹{i}And 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?{/i}
²²{i}And 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.{/i}
²³{i}And 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.{/i}
²⁴{i}And 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.{/i}
²⁵{i}And he entered in and stood before his master.{/i}
²⁶{i}And 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?{/i}
²⁷{i}But the leprosy of Naaman shall fasten upon thee, and upon thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence leprous, as snow.{/i} (2 Kings 5:20‑27)

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Job 20:19‑28• ¹⁹For he crushed, abandoned, the poor,{HR}Seized a house, and built it not;
²⁰For he knew no rest in his belly;{HR}He shall not escape with his desirable thing,
²¹There is no remnant of his eating.{HR}Therefore his prosperity endureth not.
²²In the fullness of his superfluity he is straitened,{HR}Every hand of a wretch shall be upon him.
²³That it may be to the filling of his belly,{HR}He shall send against him the burning of his anger,{HR}And rain upon him with his food.
²⁴He fleeth from a weapon of iron,{HR}A bow of copper pierceth him through;
²⁵It is drawn, and it cometh out of the body,{HR}And the glittering sword proceedeth out of his gall:{HR}Upon him [are] terrors.
²⁶All darkness [is] hid for his treasures,{HR}A fire not blown consumeth him;{HR}It shall fare ill with what is left in his tent.
²⁷The heavens reveal his iniquity,{HR}And the earth riseth up against him.
²⁸The increase of his house departeth,{HR}Things that ran 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 chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; that saith,
¹⁴I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
¹⁵Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
¹⁶He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.
¹⁷But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
¹⁸Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
¹⁹He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. (Jer. 22:13‑19)

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Zech. 5:1‑4• ¹Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
²And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
³Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: every one that stealeth shall be cut off {i}according to it on this side; and{/i} every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
⁴I will bring it 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 remain 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 had been numbered among us, and received the allotment of this service.
¹⁸(This man then obtained a field from wages of [his] iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
¹⁹And it became known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem, so that in their own language that field was called Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood).
²⁰For it is written in [the] Book of Psalms, Let his homestead be made desolate, and let there be no dweller in it; and, his overseership let another take.
²¹Of the men therefore who went with us at every time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
²²beginning from the baptism of John until the day in which he was received up from us, must one of these become a witness with us of his resurrection.
²³And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
²⁴And they prayed and said, Thou, Lord, knower of the hearts of all, show of these two which one thou hast chosen,
²⁵to take the place of this service and apostleship from which Judas fell away to go unto his own place. (Acts 1:17‑25)

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Jude 11• ¹¹Woe unto them! because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed greedily into the error of Balaam's hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. (Jude 11)

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Psa. 10:3‑6• ³For the wicked [man] boasteth of his soul's desire;{HR}He blesseth the plunderer, he despiseth Jehovah.
⁴The wicked [man] according to the pride of his anger seeketh not;{HR}All his thoughts [are], There is no God.
⁵His ways are firm at every time;{HR}Thy judgments [are] a height away from him;{HR}All his adversaries—he puffeth at them.
⁶He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved;{HR}To generation and generation [I am] he which shall not [be] in any evil. (Psa. 10:3‑6)

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Psa. 49:11• ¹¹Their inward thought [is] their houses [shall be] forever,{HR}Their dwelling-places to generation and generation;{HR}They have called the lands by their names. (Psa. 49:11)

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Psa. 52:7• ⁷Behold, the man that made not God his strength,{HR}But confided in the abundance of his riches;{HR}He strengthened himself in his wickedness. (Psa. 52:7)

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Prov. 18:11‑12• ¹¹The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city,{HR}And as a high wall in his own imagination.
¹²Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,{HR}and before honour [is] 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 are we at 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 forever; [so] that thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof.
⁸Now therefore hear this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thy heart, I [am], and all besides me [is] nothing; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know loss of children.
⁹But these two [things] shall come to thee in a moment in one day, loss of children, and widowhood: in full measure shall they come upon thee, in spite of the multitude of thy sorceries, of the great abundance of thine enchantments. (Isa. 47:7‑9)

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Jer. 49:16• ¹⁶Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as 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!

W. Kelly Translation

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