“Is this not stored up with me?” says the Lord, ¹  “Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

Jehoshaphat’s power kept increasing. He built fortresses and storage cities throughout Judah.

Then ¹  he said, ‘I ²  will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Those who are wise ¹  store up ²  knowledge, but foolish speech ³  leads to imminent ⁴  destruction.

He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.

so ¹  he thought to himself, ²  ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ ³ 

Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ¹  They conquered ²  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ³  and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

And you must take ¹  for yourself every kind of food ²  that is eaten, ³  and gather it together. ⁴  It will be food for you and for them.

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

“They do not know how to do what is right.” (The Lord is speaking.) “They store up ¹  the spoils of destructive violence ²  in their fortresses.

“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth ¹  and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare ¹  their food in the summer;

The punishment ¹  of Ephraim has been decreed; ²  his punishment is being stored up for the future.

They should gather all the excess food ¹  during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority ²  they should store up grain so the cities will have food, ³  and they should preserve it. ⁴ 

You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year ¹  and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. ² 

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

Accept instruction ¹  from his mouth and store up his words ²  in your heart.

My child, ²  if ³  you receive my words, and store up ⁴  my commands within you,

So they put foremen ¹  over the Israelites ²  to oppress ³  them with hard labor. As a result ⁴  they built Pithom and Rameses ⁵  as store cities for Pharaoh.