Quotes About Property

But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

Ahab answered, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and told him, ëGive me your vineyard for silver, or if you wish, I will give you another vineyard in its place.í And he replied, ëI will not give you my vineyard!í”

When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”

Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

Jaziz the Hagrite was in charge of the flocks. All these officials were in charge of King Davidís property.

Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.

As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

Now the prince will have the area bordering each side of the area formed by the holy district and the property of the city, extending westward from the western side and eastward from the eastern side, running lengthwise from the western boundary to the eastern boundary and parallel to one of the tribal portions.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëIf the prince gives a gift to any of his sons as an inheritance, it will belong to his descendants. It will become their property by inheritance.

The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.í”

The remaining area on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city will belong to the prince. He will own the land adjacent to the tribal portions, extending eastward from the 25,000 cubits of the holy district toward the eastern border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the western border. And in the center of them will be the holy portion and the sanctuary of the temple.

So the Levitical property and the city property will lie in the center of the area belonging to the prince—the area between the borders of Judah and Benjamin.

They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.