Nehemiah Chapter 5

• Nehemiah 5:1
  Nehemiah.
• Nehemiah 5:2
  Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
• Nehemiah 5:3
  For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
• Nehemiah 5:4
  There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
• Nehemiah 5:5
  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
• Nehemiah 5:6
  Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be serv...
• Nehemiah 5:7
  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
• Nehemiah 5:8
  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a gre...
• Nehemiah 5:9
  I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and ...
• Nehemiah 5:10
  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
• Nehemiah 5:11
  I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
• Nehemiah 5:12
  Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of ...
• Nehemiah 5:13
  Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath ...
• Nehemiah 5:14
  Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he ...
• Nehemiah 5:15
  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 Artax...
• Nehemiah 5:16
  But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even t...
• Nehemiah 5:17
  Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.
• Nehemiah 5:18
  Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that we...
• Nehemiah 5:19
  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 a store of all sorts of...
• Nehemiah 5:20
  Remember me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this people.