Treasury of Scripture
who filled their houses. That is, 'the covetous, whom nothing can satisfy,' as the poet Saady has observed, 'but the dust that fills his mouth, when laid in the grave.'
Job 22:25 Yes, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver.
Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Numbers 22:18 And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold...
1 Kings 10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale...
Isaiah 2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses...
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath...
Zechariah 9:3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.