Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. Isa 5:7Deu 15:7-111Co 6:6-8Act 7:26Exo 22:25-27Exo 3:7Jas 5:4Job 31:38-39 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.” Mal 2:2Psa 128:2-4Gen 41:57Gen 42:2Gen 43:8Psa 127:3-5 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.” Lev 25:35-39Mal 3:8-11Deu 15:7Gen 47:15-25 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral. Ezr 4:13Ezr 4:201Ki 9:21Deu 28:47-48Ezr 7:24Jos 16:10Neh 9:37 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, 1 we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.” 2Ki 4:1Lev 25:39-43Gen 37:27Isa 58:7Exo 21:1-11Gen 29:14Jas 2:5-6Mat 18:25
I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. Exo 11:8Neh 13:25Eph 4:26Num 16:15Mrk 3:5Neh 13:8 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 great assembly against them. Deu 23:19-20Lev 25:36Exo 22:252Ch 19:6-7Deu 15:2-3Deu 24:10-13Ezk 22:12Lev 19:15 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 should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say. Lev 25:47-491Co 8:112Co 8:12Deu 24:7Exo 21:16Job 29:10Job 32:15Mat 22:12 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? Lev 25:361Pe 2:122Sa 12:14Pro 18:5Rom 2:24Tit 2:51Sa 2:241Ti 5:14 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury. 2Co 6:1Exo 22:25-271Co 9:12-182Co 5:112Co 5:20Ezk 18:13Ezk 18:8Luk 3:13-14 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 the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.” Isa 58:6Lev 6:4-51Sa 12:32Sa 12:6Luk 3:8Neh 5:3-4
Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Ezr 10:5Jer 34:8-102Ch 15:13-142Ch 28:14-152Ch 6:22-232Ki 23:2-3Ezr 10:12Luk 19:8
Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise. 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 be shaken out and emptied like this.” Act 18:61Ch 16:36Mat 10:14Zec 5:3-41Ki 11:29-311Sa 15:282Ki 23:3Act 13:51
All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD. The people did according to this promise.
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 bread of the governor. Neh 13:61Co 9:181Co 9:4-152Th 3:8-9Ezr 4:13-14Neh 2:1Rom 13:6-7 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels 2 of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God. Neh 5:9Isa 50:10Pro 16:62Co 11:9Ecc 12:13-14Job 31:23Mat 5:471Sa 8:15 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. Gal 6:91Co 15:581Th 2:5-6Act 20:33-35Php 2:20-212Co 12:16-18Luk 8:15Num 16:15 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 were around us. 1Ki 18:191Pe 4:9-102Sa 9:72Sa 9:13Isa 32:8Rom 12:13 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 wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people. 1Ki 4:22-23Psa 37:21Psa 37:26Neh 5:14-15 Remember me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this people. Neh 13:31Neh 13:14Neh 13:22Psa 106:4Jer 29:11Psa 25:6-7Mat 10:42Mrk 9:41