1And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.stylusIsaiah 5:7, Isaiah 5:7, Exodus 3:7, James 5:4, Luke 18:72For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up grain for them, that we may eat, and live.stylusPsalms 128:2, Psalms 128:4, Malachi 2:2, Psalms 128:2, Psalms 128:43Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine.stylusLeviticus 25:35, Leviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:35, Leviticus 25:39, Malachi 3:84There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tax, and that upon our lands and vineyards.stylusEzra 4:13, Ezra 4:13, Ezra 4:20, Ezra 4:20, Deuteronomy 28:475Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought to bondage already : neither is it in our power to redeem them ; for other men have our lands and vineyards.stylus2 Kings 4:1, 2 Kings 4:1, Leviticus 25:39, Leviticus 25:43, Leviticus 25:396And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.stylusNehemiah 13:25, Nehemiah 13:25, Numbers 16:15, Exodus 11:8, Ephesians 4:267Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact interest, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.stylusLeviticus 25:36, Deuteronomy 23:19, Deuteronomy 23:20, Leviticus 25:36, Deuteronomy 23:198And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, who were sold to the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold to us? Then they held their peace, and found nothing to answer .stylusLeviticus 25:47, Leviticus 25:49, Leviticus 25:47, Leviticus 25:49, Romans 14:159Also I said, That is not good which ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?stylusLeviticus 25:36, Leviticus 25:36, 1 Peter 2:12, 2 Samuel 12:14, 1 Peter 2:1210I likewise, my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and grain: I pray you, let us stop charging interest.stylusExodus 22:25, Exodus 22:27, Exodus 22:25, Exodus 22:27, Philemon 1:811Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.stylusIsaiah 58:6, Isaiah 58:6, 2 Samuel 12:6, Leviticus 6:4, Leviticus 6:512Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.stylusEzra 10:5, Ezra 10:5, Jeremiah 34:8, Jeremiah 34:10, Jeremiah 34:813Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.stylusActs 18:6, Acts 18:6, 1 Chronicles 16:36, Zechariah 5:3, Zechariah 5:414Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.stylusNehemiah 13:6, Nehemiah 13:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, Nehemiah 2:115But the former governors that had been before me had laid a burden upon the people, and had taken of them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.stylusNehemiah 5:9, Nehemiah 5:9, Isaiah 50:10, Proverbs 16:6, Isaiah 50:1016Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.stylusGalatians 6:9, Galatians 6:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:5, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 1 Corinthians 15:5817Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those that came to us from among the heathen that were about us.stylus1 Kings 18:19, 1 Kings 18:19, 2 Samuel 9:7, 1 Peter 4:9, 1 Peter 4:1018Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days an abundance of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I required not the food of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.stylus1 Kings 4:22, 1 Kings 4:23, 1 Kings 4:22, 1 Kings 4:23, Psalms 37:2119Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.stylusNehemiah 13:31, Nehemiah 13:31, Nehemiah 13:14, Nehemiah 13:22, Nehemiah 13:14
