Nehemiah 5:4

American Standard Version (1901)

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards.

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  • Ezra 4:13 : 13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful unto the kings.
  • Ezra 4:20 : 20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid unto them.
  • Ezra 7:24 : 24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, upon them.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
  • Deut 28:47-48 : 47 Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; 48 therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and are become servants to do taskwork.
  • 1 Kgs 9:21 : 21 their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 5:1-3
    3 verses
    90%

    1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

    2For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

    3Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

  • Neh 5:5-12
    8 verses
    86%

    5Yet 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 into bondage [already] : neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

    6And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

    7Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.

    8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

    9Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

    10And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

    11Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

    12Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

  • Lam 5:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

    2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

    4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

    5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Neh 9:36-38
    3 verses
    76%

    36Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.

    37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

    38And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal unto it.

  • Neh 10:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

    32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

  • Neh 5:16
    73%

    16Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

  • Neh 10:37
    72%

    37and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

  • Lam 5:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

    9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Jer 35:9
    71%

    9nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • Ezra 4:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful unto the kings.

    14Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

  • Gen 47:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

    19wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

  • Esth 7:4
    70%

    4for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.

  • Ezra 4:4
    70%

    4Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

  • Neh 4:4
    70%

    4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • Mic 2:4
    70%

    4In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

  • Gen 31:15
    69%

    15Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    69%

    10And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: [but] are there not even with you trespasses of your own against Jehovah your God? [

  • Ezra 4:20
    69%

    20There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid unto them.

  • Ezra 9:7
    69%

    7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Exod 22:25
    69%

    25If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

  • Neh 4:22
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    22Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.

  • Ezra 5:9
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    9Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

  • Isa 24:2
    69%

    2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

  • 1 Sam 8:15
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    15And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
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    4And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.

  • Ezra 5:4
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    4Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men were that were making this building.

  • Ezra 9:9
    68%

    9For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended lovingkindness unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the [ ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 10:35
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    35and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah;

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    68%

    11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.