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 49:16As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
• Jer 22:13–19“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
• Deut 7:25–26You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
• Josh 7:21–26When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
• 2 Kgs 5:20–27But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
• 1 Kgs 21:19–24You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”
• 1 Kgs 21:2–4Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”
• Prov 18:11–12The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
• Isa 47:7–9You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
• Isa 28:15“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”
• Job 20:19–28For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
• Obad 1:4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
• Zech 5:1–4Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
• Acts 1:17–25For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
• Gen 13:10–13Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
• Gen 19:26–38But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
• Ps 49:11Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
• Ps 52:7“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
• Ps 10:3–6For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
• Jude 1:11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

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