Thematic Bible
Nehemiah 5:1 (show verse)
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2 (show verse)
For there were who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain that we may eat and live.
Nehemiah 5:3 (show verse)
There were some also who said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain because of the dearth.
Nehemiah 5:4 (show verse)
There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards.
Nehemiah 5:5 (show verse)
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons. And, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]. Neither is it in our
Nehemiah 5:6 (show verse)
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Nehemiah 5:7 (show verse)
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the ranking men and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact usury, everyone of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5:8 (show verse)
And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers the Jews, who were sold to the nations, and would ye even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and found not a word.
Nehemiah 5:9 (show verse)
Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Nehemiah 5:10 (show verse)
And I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Nehemiah 5:11 (show verse)
Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah 5:12 (show verse)
Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them, so will we do, even as thou say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.
Nehemiah 5:13 (show verse)
Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, who does not perform this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised LORD. And th
Nehemiah 5:14 (show verse)
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bre
Nehemiah 5:15 (show verse)
But the former governors who were before me charged the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah 5:16 (show verse)
Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither did we buy any land. And all my servants were gathered there to the work.
Nehemiah 5:17 (show verse)
Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
Nehemiah 5:18 (show verse)
Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep, also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this I did not demand the bread of the governor, because the bon
Nehemiah 5:19 (show verse)
Remember to me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.