Nehemiah 5:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Our flesh

Genesis 37:27

Isaiah 58:7

James 2:5

We

General references

Amos 8:6

Bible References

Our flesh

Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites; but let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened to him.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?

We

And these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.

But he not having anything to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and his children, and everything that he had, and that payment should be made.

General references

And if a man strike the eye of his bondman or the eye of his handmaid, and it be marred, he shall let him go for his eye.

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.

after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

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.