Verse 18

And there was prepared me daylie an oxe, and sixe chosen shepe, and byrdes, and euer once in ten dayes a greate summe of wyne. Yet requyred not I the lyuynge of a Debyte for ye bondage was greuous vnto ye people.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 4:22-23 : 22 And Salomon had daylie to his vytayles thirtye quarters of fyne meel, threscore quarters of other meel, 23 ten fat oxen, and twety small catell, and an hundreth shepe, beside hartes and Roes, and wilde goates, and fat capons, and foules.
  • Neh 5:14-15 : 14 And from the tyme forth that it was commytted vnto me to be a Debyte in the londe of Iuda, namely from the twentieth yeare vnto the two and thirtieth yeare off kynge Artaxerses (that is twolue yeare) I and my brethre lyued not of soch sustenaunbe as was geuen to a Debyte: 15 For the olde Debytes that were before me, had bene chargeable vnto the people, and had take of the bred and wyne, and fortye Sycles of syluer: Yee and their seruauntes had oppressed the people. But so dyd not I, and that because of the feare of God.
  • Ps 37:21 : 21 The vngodly boroweth and paieth not agayne, but the rightuous is mercifull & liberall.
  • Ps 37:26 : 26 The rightuous is euer mercifull, & ledeth getly, therfore shal his sede be blessed.