Nehemiah 5:1
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives (a) against their brethren the Jews. (a) Against the rich who oppressed them.... [ Continue Reading ]
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives (a) against their brethren the Jews. (a) Against the rich who oppressed them.... [ Continue Reading ]
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up (b) corn [for them], that we may eat, and live. (b) This is the complaint of the people, showing the extremity they were brought to.... [ Continue Reading ]
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's (c) tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards. (c) To pay our tribute to the king of the Persians, which was exacted yearly from us.... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet now our flesh [is] as (d) the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power (e) [to redeem them]; for other men have our... [ Continue Reading ]
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye (f) exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great (g) assembly against them. (f) You press them with usury, and seek to bring all thing into your hands. (g) Both because they should be moved w... [ Continue Reading ]
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be (h) sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing [to answer]. (h) Seeing God has once delivered them from the bondag... [ Continue Reading ]
(i) Also I said, It [is] not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the (k) reproach of the heathen our enemies? (i) Meaning, Nehemiah. (k) Who by this occasion will blaspheme the Name of God, seeing that our actions are no better than theirs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth [part] of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, (l) that ye exact of them. (l) Which you take from them for the loan.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the (m) bread of the governor. (m) I did not receive the portion and... [ Continue Reading ]
Now [that] which was prepared [for me] daily [was] one ox [and] six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of (n) all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. (n) While at other times... [ Continue Reading ]