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Several men were named Abiathar
1 Samuel 22:20-22 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD’s priests. And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.
1 Samuel 23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel 23:9 And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
1 Samuel 30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

2 Samuel 8:17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
2 Samuel 15:24 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
2 Samuel 15:27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
2 Samuel 15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
2 Samuel 15:35-36 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s son, and Jonathan Abiathar’s son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
2 Samuel 17:15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
2 Samuel 19:11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
2 Samuel 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

1 Kings 1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.
1 Kings 1:19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
1 Kings 1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
1 Kings 1:42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
1 Kings 2:22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
1 Kings 2:26-27 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the LORD God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
1 Kings 2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
1 Kings 4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

1 Chronicles 15:11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
1 Chronicles 18:16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles 24:6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles 27:34 And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king’s army was Joab.

Mark 2:26How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

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His story is recorded in 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles & Amos:
2 Kings 12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
2 Kings 14:8-9 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Kings 14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2 Kings 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Kings 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings 14:17-18 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings 14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
2 Kings 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

1 Chronicles 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
1 Chronicles 4:34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,
1 Chronicles 6:45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
2 Chronicles 24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles 26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 26:4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

Amos 7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
Amos 7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
Amos 7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The only Scripture reference to Planets:
2 Kings 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
The Romans bestowed the names of gods and goddesses on the five planets that could be seen in the night sky with the naked eye.
1 Mercury, is named after the fast-moving messenger of the gods.
2 Venus, is named for their goddess of love and beauty
3 **
4 Mars after their god of war.
5 Jupiter was named for the king of the Roman gods
6 Saturn, is named for the god of agriculture.
7 Uranus, was discovered after the telescope was invented in the early 1600s. The name is Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky,
8 Neptune, was first seen by telescope in 1846, got its name from the Roman god of the sea.
** Earth was named by God. Genesis 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
The only Scripture references to Planets:
Mercury (Mercurius) Acts 14:12
Mars  Acts 17:22 (16-34)
Jupiter  Acts 14:12-13, 19:35

The SKY is mentioned 7 times in the Scripture: Once in Deuteronomy, Job, Hebrews, twice in Matthew and twice in Luke:
Deuteronomy 33:26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
Job 37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Hebrews 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Matthew 16:2-3 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering.
Luke 12:56O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

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people (pē′pəl)

noun

1. Humans considered as a group or in indefinite numbers. Often treated as a plural of person,especially in compounds.
2. The mass of ordinary persons; the populace. Used with the.
3. A body of persons living in the same country under one national government; a nationality.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

It’s interesting “Human” is not in the Scriptures, neither is “Race” (as people).
Note … Many are called by the names of the Land (Nation, Kingdom, City) in which they lived. I.E Babylonians Daniel 1:1, Medes Daniel 9:1, Greek(s) Mark 7:25, Roman(s) John 11:4

In the Scripture some of us people are referred to as:

People 1,920x Genesis 11:6
Folk 6x Genesis 33:15
Person 107x Genesis 14:21
Tribe 297x Genesis 49:16
Heathen 145x Leviticus 25:44
Mankind 6X Leviticus 18:22
Gentile 244x Genesis 10:5
Saint(s) 98x Deuteronomy 33:2
Jew(s) 275x 2 Kings 16:6
Christian(s) 3x Acts 11:26
Body of Christ 4x Romans 7:4

From Adam to Noah: People, Folk, Person, Tribe

From Noah to Tower of Babble: People

From Tower of Babble to the Law: People

From the Law to Resurrection: People, Folk, Person, Tribe, Mankind, Jews, Saints, Heathen

From Resurrection to Today: Folk, Tribe, Mankind, Person, Gentile, Jew, Saint, Christian, Body of Christ

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BUT, wealth isn’t just Financial means.

How is your Wealth? How does it compare to the Scripture?

Just what does the Scripture say about Wealth?

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We can learn spiritual lessons as we study the Gems of Scripture.
Precious stones, it appears God made much of precious Gems, here are some of them. Select one to learn more:
⇨ Agate ⇨ Amber ⇨ Amethyst
⇨ Beryl
⇨ Carbuncle ⇨ Chalcedony ⇨ Chrysolyte ⇨ Chrysoprasus ⇨ Coral
⇨ Diamond
⇨ Emerald
⇨ Jasper ⇨ Jacinth
⇨ Ligure
⇨ Onyx
⇨ Pearl
⇨ Rubies
⇨ Sapphire ⇨ Sardius ⇨ Sardine ⇨ Sardonyx
⇨ Topaz

It is claimed that all of these Gem Stones have Meanings, Properties, and Powers. It is claimed that Powers include healing among other things. Several are birth stones. Many of these Gem Stones come in several colors.

A disclaimer, Only text from God’s word, the Scriptures, are guaranteed to be true.

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Britannica.com defines colour, also spelled color, as the aspect of any object that may be described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation. In physics, colour is associated specifically with electromagnetic radiation of a certain range of wavelengths visible to the human eye. Radiation of such wavelengths constitutes that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum known as the visible spectrum—i.e., light.

The Scripture comments on colours many times.
The word Colour(s) appears in the Scripture 24 times.
There are many things to learn as one looks at Colours in Scripture.
Coat of many colours given to Joseph: Genesis 37:3,23,32,
Other references: Leviticus 13:55, Numbers 11:7, Judges 5:30,
2 Samuel 13{18-19, 1 Chronicles 29:2, Proverbs 23:31, Isaiah 54:11,
Ezekiel 1:4,7,16,22,27, 8:2, 10:9, 16:16, 17:3, Daniel 10:6, Acts 27:30,
Revelation 17:3-4
Imagine, what would life be like without color?
When was the last time you watched a movie or TV show in Black and White?

Some of the colours named in the Scripture:
Amber, Bdellium, Black, Blue, Crimson, Gold Green, Marble, Purple, Red, Scarlet, Silver, White, Yellow.

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