Habakkuk 2:9

Woe is pronounced on the one who builds his house by evil gain, setting his nest on high to escape harm. It condemns those who seek security through unjust profit.

Cross-references · 20

• Jer 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
• Jer 22:13–19“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
• Deut 7:25–26You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
• Josh 7:21–26When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
• 2 Kgs 5:20–27Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, while not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
• 1 Kgs 21:19–24Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
• 1 Kgs 21:2–4So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”
• Prov 18:11–12A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
• Isa 47:7–9You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
• Isa 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
• Job 20:19–28For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
• Obad 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
• Zech 5:1–4Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
• Acts 1:17–25He was one of our number and shared in this ministry.”
• Gen 13:10–13And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
• Gen 19:26–38But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
• Ps 49:11Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.
• Ps 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
• Ps 10:3–6For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
• Jude 1:11Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

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