"It's true," Achan answered. "I have sinned against the LORD, Israel's God, and this is what I did.

Among the things we seized I saw a beautiful Babylonian cloak, about five pounds of silver, and a bar of gold weighing over one pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. You will find them buried inside my tent, with the silver at the bottom."

But Saul and his men spared Agag's life and did not kill the best sheep and cattle, the best calves and lambs, or anything else that was good; they destroyed only what was useless or worthless.

But my men did not kill the best sheep and cattle that they captured; instead, they brought them here to Gilgal to offer as a sacrifice to the LORD your God."

when Elisha's servant Gehazi said to himself, "My master has let Naaman get away without paying a thing! He should have accepted what that Syrian offered him. By the living LORD I will run after him and get something from him."

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!" And they criticized her harshly.

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?"

He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. He carried the money bag and would help himself from it.

They have left the straight path and have lost their way; they have followed the path taken by Balaam son of Beor, who loved the money he would get for doing wrong