They said to each other, "Come, let us make oven-fired bricks." They had brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.

Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech."

I said to myself, "Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure and enjoy what is good." But it turned out to be futile.

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

So the king said to Hazael, "Take a gift with you and go meet the man of God. Inquire of the LORD through him, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift: 40 camel-loads of all kinds of goods from Damascus. When he came and stood before him, he said, "Your son, Ben-hadad king of Aram, has sent me to ask you, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

The elders of Moab and Midian departed with fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and reported Balak's words to him.

for I will greatly honor you and do whatever you ask me. So please come and put a curse on these people for me!'"

But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, "If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the LORD my God to do [anything] small or great.

Now go to your home! I said I would reward you richly, but look, the LORD has denied you a reward."

If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the LORD's command, to do [anything] good or bad of my own will? I will say whatever the LORD says.

The attendant answered Saul: "Here, I have a piece of silver. I'll give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way."

Then the king declared to the man of God, "Come home with me, refresh yourself, and I'll give you a reward."

The king of Israel had said to his servants, "Don't you know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?"

When Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

But Peter told him, "May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the gift of God could be obtained with money!

He gave each of the brothers changes of clothes, but he gave Benjamin 300 pieces of silver and five changes of clothes.

"Let me tell you a riddle," Samson said to them. "If you can explain it to me during the seven days of the feast and figure it out, I will give you 30 linen garments and 30 changes of clothes.

Your wealth is ruined: your clothes are moth-eaten;

your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!