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; meditate in your heart upon your bed, and desist. Selah.

My heart has spoken unto me from thee, Seek my face. Thy face, O LORD, will I seek.

I rebuked

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

and said to the judges, Take heed what ye do, for ye do not judge for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the word of judgment.

God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Therefore from now on we know no one according to the flesh: and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no longer.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed.

Those that persist in sin rebuke before all, that the others may also fear.

These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

Ye exact usury

If thou should lend money to my people, to the poor who is with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Take thou no usury of him, or increase; but thou shalt have the fear of thy God, and thy brother shall live with thee.

And this is the manner of the release: everyone who has lent anything to his neighbour, causing him to be in debt, shall release it; he shall not exact it any more of his neighbour or of his brother, because the release of the LORD is proclaimed.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother, usury of money, usury of food, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury.

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge.

LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in the mountain of thy holiness?

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel, remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and righteousness, take away your exactions from my people, said the Lord GOD.

I set a great assembly

But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the host that came to Samaria and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage. This reaches up unto heaven.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the congregation ; but if he neglects to hear the congregation, let him be unto thee as a worldly man and a publican.

General references

If thou should lend money to my people, to the poor who is with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.