Quotes About Value

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”

But when Saulís servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

So do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to look for a flea, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will pay no attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better for now if you support us from the city.”

Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

The girl was unsurpassed in beauty; she cared for the king and served him, but he had no relations with her.

The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.

Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.

The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

All King Solomonís drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkeyís head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of doveís dung sold for five shekels of silver.

The captain of the guard also took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.

“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”