Nehemiah 5:1

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Summary

Nehemiah 5:1

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

A great cry

James 5:4

Their brethren

General references

Amos 8:6

Bible References

A great cry

And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

if thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee,thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest.

If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.

And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Their brethren

And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, be he stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.

If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need;

And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.

General references

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.