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路加福音 12:16

就對他們講了一個比喻,說:“有一個富翁的田地豐收。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Covetousness;   Fool;   Happiness;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Rich, the;   Self-Indulgence;   Thompson Chain Reference - Accumulation of Wealth;   Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Business;   Business Life;   Care;   Cares, Business;   Earthly;   Parables;   Poverty-Riches;   Prosperity;   Prosperity-Adversity;   Riches, Earthly;   Treasures, Earthly;   Truth;   Wealth;   The Topic Concordance - Alertness;   Covetousness;   Greed/gluttony;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Happiness of the Wicked, the;   Parables;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Time;   Wealth;   Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Jesus Christ;   Work;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Community of Goods;   Ethics;   Luke, Gospel of;   Parables;   Wealth and Materialism;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Contentment;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Parable;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ambition;   Common Life;   Covetousness;   Ebionism (2);   Foolishness;   Giving;   Heart;   James ;   Letters;   Mammon;   Man (2);   Parable;   Poverty (2);   Premeditation;   Property (2);   Providence;   Reality;   Renunciation;   Retribution (2);   Selfishness;   Social Life;   Wealth (2);   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Lazarus;   Ostraca;   Wealth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 17;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
就 用 比 喻 对 他 们 说 : 有 一 个 财 主 田 产 丰 盛 ;

Contextual Overview

13 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide with me the property our father left us." 14 But Jesus said to him, "Who said I should judge or decide between you?" 15 Then Jesus said to them, "Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed. Life is not measured by how much one owns." 16 Then Jesus told this story: "There was a rich man who had some land, which grew a good crop. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What will I do? I have no place to keep all my crops.' 18 Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and other goods. 19 Then I can say to myself, "I have enough good things stored to last for many years. Rest, eat, drink, and enjoy life!"' 20 "But God said to him, ‘Foolish man! Tonight your life will be taken from you. So who will get those things you have prepared for yourself?' 21 "This is how it will be for those who store up things for themselves and are not rich toward God."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The ground: Genesis 26:12-14, Genesis 41:47-49, Job 12:6, Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:12, Hosea 2:8, Matthew 5:45, Acts 14:17

Reciprocal: Job 21:10 - their cow Job 24:23 - whereon Psalms 73:7 - have Psalms 144:13 - our garners Proverbs 1:32 - and the Ecclesiastes 5:13 - riches Isaiah 5:8 - them Ezekiel 16:49 - fulness Ezekiel 28:5 - and thine Malachi 3:10 - that there Mark 10:24 - trust Luke 1:53 - and Luke 16:19 - rich James 1:11 - so James 5:1 - ye

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I may be allowed to live because of you."
Genesis 12:14
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.
Genesis 12:15
The Egyptian officers saw her and told the king of Egypt how beautiful she was. They took her to the king's palace, and
Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold.
Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech gave Abraham some sheep, cattle, and male and female slaves. He also gave Sarah, Abraham's wife, back to him
Genesis 24:35
The Lord has greatly blessed my master in everything, and he has become a rich man. The Lord has given him many flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, camels, and horses.
Genesis 26:14
He had so many slaves and flocks and herds that the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 32:5
I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants. I send this message to you and ask you to accept us.'"
Job 1:3
He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred teams of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys. He also had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
Job 42:12
The Lord blessed the last part of Job's life even more than the first part. Job had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand teams of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he spake a parable unto them, saying,.... He supposed the following case, and made use of it by way of illustration of what he had said:

the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully; who notwithstanding his riches, was but a fool, as the sequel shows; rich men are not always wise in things natural and civil; and very few of them are spiritually wise, or wise in spiritual things, in things which relate to the welfare of their souls; but however, this man was very prosperous in his worldly affairs, as a man of a small share of common sense may be, and wicked men often are: the word translated "ground", signifies a "region", or "country", which expresses the more, the riches of this man, that he had not a common and ordinary farm, but a whole country as it were; at least a very large part of one, and all this fruitful.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A parable - See the notes at Matthew 13:3.

Plentifully - His land was fertile, and produced even beyond his expectations, and beyond what he had provided for.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 12:16. The ground of a certain rich man, &c.] He had generally what is called good luck in his farm, and this was a remarkably plentiful year.


 
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