Nehemiah 5 (NET)

Nehemiah 5:1¹Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:7Deut 15:7-111 Cor 6:6-8Acts 7:26Exod 22:25-27Exod 3:7Jas 5:4Job 31:38-39Job 34:28Lev 25:35-37

Nehemiah 5:2²There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 2:2Ps 128:2-4Gen 41:57Gen 42:2Gen 43:8Ps 127:3-5

Nehemiah 5:3³There were others who said, “We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 25:35-39Mal 3:8-11Deut 15:7Gen 47:15-25

Nehemiah 5:4⁴Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 4:13Ezra 4:201 Kgs 9:21Deut 28:47-48Ezra 7:24Josh 16:10Neh 9:37

Nehemiah 5:5⁵And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:1Lev 25:39-43Gen 37:27Isa 58:7Exod 21:1-11Gen 29:14Jas 2:5-6Matt 18:25

Nehemiah 5:6⁶I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 11:8Neh 13:25Eph 4:26Num 16:15Mark 3:5Neh 13:8

Nehemiah 5:7⁷I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, “Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” Because of them I called for a great public assembly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 23:19-20Lev 25:36Exod 22:252 Chr 19:6-7Deut 15:2-3Deut 24:10-13Ezek 22:12Lev 19:15Ps 15:51 Tim 5:20

Nehemiah 5:8⁸I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 25:47-491 Cor 8:112 Cor 8:12Deut 24:7Exod 21:16Job 29:10Job 32:15Matt 22:12Matt 25:15Matt 25:29

Nehemiah 5:9⁹Then I said, “The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 25:361 Pet 2:122 Sam 12:14Prov 18:5Rom 2:24Titus 2:51 Sam 2:241 Tim 5:14Acts 9:31Gen 13:7-8

Nehemiah 5:10¹⁰Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 6:1Exod 22:25-271 Cor 9:12-182 Cor 5:112 Cor 5:20Ezek 18:13Ezek 18:8Luke 3:13-14Mic 2:1Neh 5:7

Nehemiah 5:11¹¹This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 58:6Lev 6:4-51 Sam 12:32 Sam 12:6Luke 3:8Neh 5:3-4

Nehemiah 5:12¹²They replied, “We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 10:5Jer 34:8-102 Chr 15:13-142 Chr 28:14-152 Chr 6:22-232 Kgs 23:2-3Ezra 10:12Luke 19:8Matt 19:21-22Matt 26:63

Nehemiah 5:13¹³I also shook out my garment, and I said, “In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out this matter. In this way may he be shaken out and emptied!” All the assembly replied, “So be it!” and they praised the Lord. Then the people did as they had promised.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 18:61 Chr 16:36Matt 10:14Zech 5:3-41 Kgs 11:29-311 Sam 15:282 Kgs 23:3Acts 13:51Deut 27:14-26Eccl 5:5

Nehemiah 5:14¹⁴From the day that I was appointed governor in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes—twelve years in all—neither I nor my relatives ate the food allotted to the governor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:61 Cor 9:181 Cor 9:4-152 Thess 3:8-9Ezra 4:13-14Neh 2:1Rom 13:6-7

Nehemiah 5:15¹⁵But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 5:9Isa 50:10Prov 16:62 Cor 11:9Eccl 12:13-14Job 31:23Matt 5:471 Sam 8:152 Cor 12:13Prov 29:12

Nehemiah 5:16¹⁶I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:91 Cor 15:581 Thess 2:5-6Acts 20:33-35Phil 2:20-212 Cor 12:16-18Luke 8:15Num 16:15Rom 2:7

Nehemiah 5:17¹⁷There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:191 Pet 4:9-102 Sam 9:72 Sam 9:13Isa 32:8Rom 12:13

Nehemiah 5:18¹⁸Every day one ox, six select sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Despite all this I did not require the food allotted to the governor, for the work was demanding on this people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 4:22-23Ps 37:21Ps 37:26Neh 5:14-15

Nehemiah 5:19¹⁹Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 13:31Neh 13:14Neh 13:22Ps 106:4Jer 29:11Ps 25:6-7Mark 9:41Matt 10:42Ps 18:23-25Ps 40:17