Nehemiah 5:7

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Summary

Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

I consulted with myself

Psalm 4:4

Psalm 27:8

I rebuked

Ye exact usury

I set a great assembly

2 Chronicles 28:9

Matthew 18:17

General references

Exodus 22:25

Bible References

I consulted with myself

Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah

When thou saidst , Seek ye my face; My heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.

I rebuked

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah; and he is with you in the judgment.

God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods.

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned.

Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Ye exact usury

If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah's release hath been proclaimed.

Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest:

When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.

I set a great assembly

But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because Jehovah, the God of your fathers, was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage which hath reached up to heaven.

And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican.

General references

If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.