Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

King James Version

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Holman Bible

There was a widespread outcry from the people and their wives against their Jewish countrymen.

International Standard Version

Now the people along with their spouses complained loudly against their fellow Jews,

A Conservative Version

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

American Standard Version

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Amplified

Now there was a great outcry of the [poorer] people and their wives against their Jewish brothers [to whom they were deeply in debt].

Bible in Basic English

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

Darby Translation

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Julia Smith Translation

And a cry of the people and their wives will be great against their brethren the Jews.

King James 2000

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives [against] their Jewish brothers.

Modern King James verseion

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And there arose a great complaint of the people, and of their wives, against their brethren the Jews.

NET Bible

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

New Heart English Bible

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

The Emphasized Bible

Then came there to be a great outcry of the people and their wives, - against their brethren the Jews.

Webster

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

World English Bible

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Youngs Literal Translation

And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

cry
צעקה 
Tsa`aqah 
Usage: 21

of the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

and of their wives
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

References

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Smith

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Context Readings

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

1 Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain that we may eat and live.”

Cross References

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

Exodus 22:25-27

If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

Leviticus 25:35-37

Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

Deuteronomy 15:7-11

“If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;

Job 31:38-39

“If my land cries out against me,
And its furrows weep together;

Job 34:28

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,
And that He might hear the cry of the afflicted—

Luke 18:7

now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

Acts 7:26

On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?’

1 Corinthians 6:6-8

but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?

James 5:4

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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