So he listed his house with a real estate firm, planning to sell it and to purchase a more impressive home. Shortly afterward, as he was reading the classified section of the newspaper, he saw an ad for a house that seemed just right. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. I believe the tenth commandment is a summation of the nine preceding commandments. It is the tenth commandment that seeks to internalize the law for each of us as it tells us not to covet anything that belongs to our neighbor.
Covetousness is driven by greed.
Greed feeds on itself and leads to even greater sin. It is a form of greed, which Paul calls idolatry. We may not bow down to stone statues, but anything we elevate to a higher place than God in our lives indeed becomes an idol. When David succumbed to the evil desires of his covetous heart for Uriah's wife, he broke each of the Ten Commandments. He broke the precepts of the first four commandments that had to do with his relationship with God.