Nehemiah 5:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet now our flesh is as 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 to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Our flesh

Genesis 37:27

Isaiah 58:7

James 2:5

We

General references

Amos 8:6

Bible References

Our flesh

Come on! Let's sell him to the Ishmaelites! That way, we won't have laid our hands on him. After all, he's our brother, our own flesh."

Isn't it to share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him with clothing, and not to raise yourself up from your own flesh and blood?"

Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?

We

"These are the ordinances that you are to set before them.

"If your brother with you becomes so poor that he sells himself to you, you are not to make him serve like a bond slave.

Now there happened to be a certain woman who had been the wife of a member of the Guild of Prophets. She cried out to Elisha, "My husband who served you has died, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. But a creditor has come to take away my children into indentured servitude!"

Because he couldn't pay, his master ordered him, his wife, his children, and everything that he owned to be sold so that payment could be made.

General references

"If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he is to release him as a free man in exchange for his eye.

"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them.

he has the right to be redeemed after he sells himself. One of his brothers may redeem him.

"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.'