Nehemiah 5:18

The food for one day included: one bull and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. 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

The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal.

Nehemiah 5:14-15

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, my servants and I have never taken the food that was the right of the ruler.

Psalm 37:21

The wicked borrows and does not pay back. But the righteous is gracious and gives.

Psalm 37:26

He is always generous and lends freely. His descendants are 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
The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal.

Required

Nehemiah 5:14
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, my servants and I have never taken the food that was the right of the ruler.

Because the bondage

Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrows and does not pay back. But the righteous is gracious and gives.