1Nowe there was a great crie of the people, and of their wiues against their brethren the Iewes.

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Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 5:7, Exodus 3:7, James 5:4, Luke 18:7

2For there were that said, We, our sonnes and our daughters are many, therefore we take vp corne, that we may eate and liue.

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Psalms 128:2, Psalms 128:4, Malachi 2:2, Psalms 128:2, Psalms 128:4

3And there were that saide, We must gage our landes, and our vineyardes, and our houses, and take vp corne for the famine.

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Leviticus 25:35, Leviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:35, Leviticus 25:39, Malachi 3:8

4There were also that said, We haue borowed money for the Kings tribute vpon our landes and our vineyardes.

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Ezra 4:13, Ezra 4:13, Ezra 4:20, Ezra 4:20, Deuteronomy 28:47

5And nowe our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, and our sonnes as their sonnes: and lo, we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters, as seruants, and there be of our daughters nowe in subiection, and there is no power in our handes: for other men haue our landes and our vineyardes.

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2 Kings 4:1, 2 Kings 4:1, Leviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:43, Leviticus 25:39

6Then was I very angrie when I heard their crie and these wordes.

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Nehemiah 13:25, Nehemiah 13:25, Numbers 16:15, Exodus 11:8, Ephesians 4:26

7And I thought in my minde, and I rebuked the princes, and the rulers, and saide vnto them, You lay burthens euery one vpon his brethren: and I set a great assemblie against them,

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Leviticus 25:36, Deuteronomy 23:19, Deuteronomy 23:20, Leviticus 25:36, Deuteronomy 23:19

8And I said vnto them, We (according to our abilitie) haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen: and will you sell your brethren againe, or shall they be solde vnto vs? Then helde they their peace, and could not answere.

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Leviticus 25:47, Leviticus 25:49, Leviticus 25:47, Leviticus 25:49, Romans 14:15

9I said also, That which ye do, is not good. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, for the reproche of the heathen our enemies?

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Leviticus 25:36, Leviticus 25:36, 1 Peter 2:12, 2 Samuel 12:14, 1 Peter 2:12

10For euen I, my brethren, and my seruants doe lende them money and corne: I pray you, let vs leaue off this burden.

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Exodus 22:25, Exodus 22:27, Exodus 22:25, Exodus 22:27, Philemon 1:8

11Restore, I pray you, vnto them this day their landes, their vineyardes, their oliues, and their houses, and remit the hundreth part of the siluer and of the corne, of the wine, and of the oyle that ye exact of them.

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Isaiah 58:6, Isaiah 58:6, 2 Samuel 12:6, Leviticus 6:4, Leviticus 6:5

12Then said they, We will restore it, and will not require it of them: we will doe as thou hast said. Then I called the Priestes, and caused them to sweare, that they shoulde doe according to this promise.

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Ezra 10:5, Ezra 10:5, Jeremiah 34:8, Jeremiah 34:10, Jeremiah 34:8

13So I shooke my lappe, and said, So let God shake out euery man that wil not perfourme this promise from his house, and from his labour: euen thus let him be shaken out, and emptied. And all the Cogregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord: and the people did according to this promise.

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Acts 18:6, Acts 18:6, 1 Chronicles 16:36, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:4

14And from the time that the King gaue me charge to be gouernour in the lande of Iudah, from the twentieth yeere, euen vnto the two and thirtieth yeere of King Artahshashte, that is, twelue yeere, I, and my brethren haue not eaten the bread of the gouernour.

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Nehemiah 13:6, Nehemiah 13:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Nehemiah 2:1

15For the former gouernours that were before me, had bene chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides fourtie shekels of siluer: yea, and their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.

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Nehemiah 5:9, Nehemiah 5:9, Isaiah 50:10, Proverbs 16:6, Isaiah 50:10

16But rather I fortified a portion in the worke of this wall, and we bought no lande, and all my seruants came thither together vnto the worke.

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Galatians 6:9, Galatians 6:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:5, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Corinthians 15:58

17Moreouer there were at my table an hundreth and fiftie of the Iewes, and rulers, which came vnto vs from among the heathen that are about vs.

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1 Kings 18:19, 1 Kings 18:19, 2 Samuel 9:7, 1 Peter 4:9, 1 Peter 4:10

18And there was prepared daily an oxe, and sixe chosen sheepe, and birdes were prepared for me, and within ten dayes wine for all in abundance. Yet for all this I required not the bread of the gouernour: for the bondage was grieuous vnto this people.

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1 Kings 4:22, 1 Kings 4:23, 1 Kings 4:22, 1 Kings 4:23, Psalms 37:21

19Remember me, O my God, in goodnesse, according to all that I haue done for this people.

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Nehemiah 13:31, Nehemiah 13:31, Nehemiah 13:14, Nehemiah 13:22, Nehemiah 13:14