Nehemiah 5:18

Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.

1 Kings 4:22-23

Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,

Nehemiah 5:14-15

Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.

Psalm 37:21

The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

Psalm 37:26

He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.

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Summary

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

Required

Because the bondage

Bible References

Now that

1 Kings 4:22
Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,

Required

Nehemiah 5:14
Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.

Because the bondage

Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

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