Nehemiah 5:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:19 : 19 Now send, and get Israel together before me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal who get their food at Jezebel's table.
  • 2 Sam 9:7 : 7 And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.
  • 2 Sam 9:13 : 13 So Mephibosheth went on living in Jerusalem; for he took all his meals at the king's table; and he had not the use of his feet.
  • Isa 32:8 : 8 But the noble-hearted man has noble purposes, and by these he will be guided.
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.
  • 1 Pet 4:9-9 : 9 Keep open house for all with a glad heart; 10 Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;

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  • Neh 5:18-19
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    18 Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

    19 Keep in mind, O my God, for my good, all I have done for this people.

  • Neh 5:14-16
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    14 Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

    15 But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

    16 And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

  • Dan 5:1
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    1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

  • Neh 2:16
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    16 And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.

  • Neh 13:5
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    5 Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

  • Neh 12:40
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    40 So the two bands of those who gave praise took up their positions in the house of God, and I and half of the chiefs with me:

  • Ezra 8:15
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    15 And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.

  • Ezra 8:24-25
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    24 So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

    25 And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

  • Esth 1:3-5
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    3 In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

    4 And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

    5 And at the end of that time, the king gave a feast for all the people who were present in Shushan, the king's town, small as well as great, for seven days, in the outer square of the garden of the king's house.

  • Neh 5:7-8
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    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 7:22
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    22 Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.

  • Neh 7:5
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    5 And my God put it into my heart to get together the rulers and the chiefs and the people so that they might be listed by families. And I came across a record of the names of those who came up at the first, and in it I saw these words:

  • Ezra 6:7-8
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    7 Let the work of this house of God go on; let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men put up this house of God in its place.

    8 Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

  • Neh 2:1
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    1 And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.

  • Neh 2:9
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    9 Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

  • Ezra 4:14
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    14 Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,

  • Neh 1:2
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    2 That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,

  • Ezra 7:28
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    28 And has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. And I was made strong by the hand of the Lord my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

  • Ezra 5:5
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    5 But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.

  • Dan 1:13
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    13 Then take a look at our faces and the faces of the young men who have food from the king's table; and, having seen them, do to your servants as it seems right to you.

  • Esth 8:17
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    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.

  • Esth 1:10
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    10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,

  • Esth 9:16-17
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    16 And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got salvation from their haters and put seventy-five thousand of them to death; but they did not put a hand on their goods.

    17 This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

  • Neh 4:22
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    22 And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.

  • Dan 1:5
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    5 And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king's table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king.

  • Esth 5:12
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    12 And Haman said further, Truly, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in to the feast which she had made ready for the king; and tomorrow again I am to be her guest with the king.

  • Neh 4:16
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    16 And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.

  • Ezra 2:3
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    3 The children of Parosh, two thousand, one hundred and seventy-two.

  • Neh 8:12
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    12 And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

  • Ezra 5:3
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    3 At the same time, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and their men, came to them and said, Who gave you orders to go on building this house and this wall?

  • Ezra 1:9-11
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    9 And this is the number of them: there were thirty gold plates, a thousand silver plates, twenty-nine knives,

    10 Thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins, and a thousand other vessels.

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  • Esth 1:7
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    7 And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

  • Neh 7:7
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    7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

  • 2 Kgs 25:29
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    29 And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.

  • Ezra 5:8-10
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    8 This is to give the king word that we went into the land of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is made of great stones, and has its walls supported with wood, and the work is going on with industry, and they are doing it well.

    9 Then we said to the men responsible, who gave you authority for the building of this house and these walls?

    10 And we made request for their names, so that we might send you word, and give you the names of the men at the head of them.

  • Neh 4:12
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    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.

  • Neh 7:70
    66%

    70 And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes.