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

Be disturbed but do not sin. Commune in your heart on your bed and be silent. Selah

On your behalf my heart says, "Seek my face." Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek.

I rebuked

" 'You shall not do injustice in judgment; {you shall not show partiality to the powerless}; you shall not give preference {to the powerful}; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice.

And he said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you are not judging for a man but for Yahweh. Now [he is] with you in speaking justice.

God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of [the] gods.

Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.

So then, from now on we know no one {from a human point of view}, if indeed we have known Christ {from a human point of view}, but now we know [him this way] no longer.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed [him] to his face, because he was condemned.

Reprove those who sin in the presence of all, in order that the rest also may experience fear.

Speak these [things] and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Ye exact usury

" 'If you lend money [to] my people, [to] the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not {charge him interest}.

You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you.

And this [is] the manner of the remission of debt: every {creditor} shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment [from] his brother because there remission of debt has been proclaimed unto Yahweh.

"{You shall not charge your brother interest on money}, interest on food, or interest on anything that one could lend on interest

"When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house {to take his pledge}.

O Yahweh, who may reside in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain?

They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain [from] your neighbors by extortion, and [so] you have forgotten me, {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Enough [of this] for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your [acts of] dispossession from upon my people!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

I set a great assembly

Now a prophet of Yahweh was there; Oded [was] his name. And he went out before the army that was coming to Samaria and said to them, "Look, [it is] on account of the anger of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, against Judah [that] he gave them into your hands, and you killed them in a rage reaching to the heavens.

And if he refuses to listen to them, tell [it] to the church. But if he refuses to listen to the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

General references

" 'If you lend money [to] my people, [to] the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not {charge him interest}.