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Proverbs 1:13
We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The collective voice of the wicked conspirators addresses their own ranks in a moment of violent plotting. They propose consuming their victim whole and pooling their stolen wealth.
The words — The text highlights שָׁלָֽל (sha.Lal), meaning plunder, and נִמְצָ֑א (nim.Tza'), meaning we will find. These terms ground the conspirators’ boast in the concrete act of seizing and accumulating stolen wealth.
The thread — The pursuit of ill-gotten gain recurs in Job 24:2, where men move boundary stones and pasture stolen flocks, and in Luke 12:15, which warns against greed. Paul later notes in 1 Timothy 6:9 that the desire to be rich leads to foolish and harmful desires.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition of how greed justifies violence and theft when left unchecked. It requires the reader to confront the logical endpoint of self-serving ambition without romanticizing it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Cross-references
- 1 Timothy 6:9 Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- Job 24:2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
- Luke 12:15 And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
- Proverbs 1:19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
- Isaiah 10:13 For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
- Jeremiah 22:16 He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
- Nahum 2:12 The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
- Haggai 2:9 The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
- Revelation 18:9 Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.