Verse 18

Now that which was prepared{H6213} for one day{H3117} was one{H259} ox{H7794} and six{H8337} choice{H1305} sheep;{H6629} also fowls{H6833} were prepared{H6213} for me, and once in ten{H6235} days{H3117} store{H7235} of all sorts of wine:{H3196} yet for all{H5973} this I demanded{H1245} not the bread{H3899} of the governor,{H6346} because the bondage{H5656} was heavy{H3513} upon this people.{H5971}

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 4:22-23 : 22 And Solomon's{H8010} provision{H3899} for one{H259} day{H3117} was thirty{H7970} measures{H3734} of fine flour,{H5560} and threescore{H8346} measures{H3734} of meal,{H7058} 23 ten{H6235} fat{H1277} oxen,{H1241} and twenty{H6242} oxen{H1241} out of the pastures,{H7471} and a hundred{H3967} sheep,{H6629} besides harts,{H354} and gazelles,{H3180} and roebucks,{H6643} and fatted{H75} fowl.{H1257}
• Neh 5:14-15 : 14 Moreover from the time{H3117} that I was appointed{H6680} to be their governor{H6346} in the land{H776} of Judah,{H3063} from the twentieth{H6242} year{H8141} even unto the two{H8147} and thirtieth{H7970} year{H8141} of Artaxerxes{H783} the king,{H4428} [that is], twelve{H8147} years,{H8141} I and my brethren{H251} have not eaten{H398} the bread{H3899} of the governor.{H6346} 15 But the former{H7223} governors{H6346} that were before{H6440} me were chargeable{H3513} unto the people,{H5971} and took{H3947} of them bread{H3899} and wine,{H3196} besides{H310} forty{H705} shekels{H8255} of silver;{H3701} yea, even{H1571} their servants{H5288} bare rule{H7980} over the people:{H5971} but so did{H6213} not I, because{H6440} of the fear{H3374} of God.{H430}
• Ps 37:21 : 21 The wicked{H7563} borroweth,{H3867} and payeth not again;{H7999} But the righteous{H6662} dealeth graciously,{H2603} and giveth.{H5414}
• Ps 37:26 : 26 All the day long{H3117} he dealeth graciously,{H2603} and lendeth;{H3867} And his seed{H2233} is blessed.{H1293}