Nehemiah 5:18

Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

1 Kings 4:22-23

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

Nehemiah 5:14-15

Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

Psalm 37:21

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Psalm 37:26

All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

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Summary

Nehemiah 5:18

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 all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Now that

1 Kings 4:22

Required

Nehemiah 5:14

Because the bondage

Psalm 37:21

Bible References

Now that

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

Required

Because the bondage

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.