Nehemiah 5:5

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁴ Also there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.” ⁶ Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words.

According to the Flesh

Flesh and Blood

No

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Genesis 37:27

Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.

Leviticus 25:39-43

‘If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

Isaiah 58:7

“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry
And bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the naked, to cover him;
And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Genesis 29:14

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.

Exodus 21:1-11

“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

Matthew 18:25

But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.

James 2:5-6

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?