Cities would often pay their attacker to leave the city intact. In this case, silver and gold would be powerless to deliver the people; they cannot prevent God from pouring out his wrath. “Riches do not profit in the day of wrath” (Proverbs 11:4).
Cities would often pay their attacker to leave the city intact. In this case, silver and gold would be powerless to deliver the people; they cannot prevent God from pouring out his wrath. “Riches do not profit in the day of wrath” (Proverbs 11:4).
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.