Job 22:24

World English Bible (2000)

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 9:28 : 28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
  • Isa 13:12 : 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
  • Gen 10:29 : 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
  • 1 Kgs 10:21 : 21 All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
  • 1 Kgs 22:48 : 48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
  • 2 Chr 1:5 : 5 Moreover the bronze altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.
  • 2 Chr 9:10 : 10 The servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
  • 2 Chr 9:27 : 27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
  • Job 31:25 : 25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

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