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 don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

I rebuked

"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

Ye exact usury

"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.

You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:

When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

I set a great assembly

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, "Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

General references

"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.