Nehemiah 5:1

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Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

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  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
  • Acts 7:26 : 26 And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?
  • 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges. 7 More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss? 8 So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
  • Exod 22:25-27 : 25 If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. 26 If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: 27 For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.
  • Lev 25:35-37 : 35 And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. 36 Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. 37 Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.
  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him; 8 But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of. 9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you. 10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand. 11 For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; 39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
  • Job 34:28 : 28 So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 5:2-8
    7 verses
    80%

    2 For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

    3 And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

    4 And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

    6 And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry.

    7 And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.

    8 And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

  • Ezra 3:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

    13 So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

  • Neh 4:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12 And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

    13 So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

    14 And after looking, I got up and said to the great ones and to the chiefs and to the rest of the people, Have no fear of them: keep in mind the Lord who is great and greatly to be feared, and take up arms for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

  • 2 Chr 32:18
    69%

    18 These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;

  • Neh 4:1
    68%

    1 Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

  • Neh 8:1
    68%

    1 And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

  • Ezra 10:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

    2 And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.

  • Esth 9:2
    68%

    2 On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, for the purpose of attacking all those who were attempting evil against them: and everyone had to give way before them, for the fear of them had come on all the peoples.

  • Ezra 10:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 But the number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside, and this is not a thing which may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.

    14 So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned away from us, and this has been done.

  • Lam 5:11
    68%

    11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 29:8-9
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    67%

    8 And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

    9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

  • Esth 8:11
    67%

    11 In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,

  • Jer 9:18
    67%

    18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

  • Neh 13:27
    67%

    27 Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

  • 2 Chr 28:11
    67%

    11 And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

  • Esth 9:5
    67%

    5 So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.

  • Neh 4:7
    67%

    7 But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

  • Neh 5:11
    67%

    11 Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

  • Num 14:1
    67%

    1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

  • Ezra 3:1
    67%

    1 And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 21:15
    67%

    15 And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.

  • Acts 6:1
    66%

    1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

  • Neh 12:43
    66%

    43 And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

  • Ezra 10:10
    66%

    10 And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

  • Job 35:9
    66%

    9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

  • Ezek 27:30
    66%

    30 And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

  • Judg 21:2
    66%

    2 And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.

  • Zeph 1:10
    66%

    10 And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

  • Jer 18:21
    66%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Ezek 9:1
    66%

    1 Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.

  • Ezra 4:1
    66%

    1 Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;

  • Neh 13:24-25
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    66%

    24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.

    25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

  • Esth 8:17
    66%

    17 And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.

  • Judg 21:22
    66%

    22 And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

  • Dan 3:8
    66%

    8 At that time certain Chaldaeans came near and made a statement against the Jews.

  • 2 Chr 15:5
    66%

    5 In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.