Nehemiah 13:16

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People from Tyre who lived there were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah and in Jerusalem.

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  • Exod 23:12 : 12 For six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant and the foreigner may be refreshed.
  • Deut 5:14 : 14 But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your ox, your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the foreigner residing in your towns—so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.

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  • Neh 13:15
    84%

    15In those days, I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain, loading them on donkeys, as well as carrying wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, bringing them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So, I warned them on the day they were selling their provisions.

  • Neh 13:17-21
    5 verses
    81%

    17I reprimanded the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?

    18Didn’t your ancestors do the same, so that our God brought all this disaster upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath!"

    19When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and directed that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I stationed some of my men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

    20Once or twice, the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares spent the night outside Jerusalem.

    21But I warned them and said, "Why are you spending the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on, they did not come on the Sabbath.

  • Jer 17:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21This is what the LORD says: 'Be careful not to carry any load on the Sabbath day, or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem.'

    22Do not bring any load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.

  • Neh 10:31
    71%

    31They pledged not to give their daughters in marriage to the peoples of the land or to take their daughters for their sons.

  • Jer 17:24
    71%

    24But if you diligently obey Me, declares the LORD, and do not bring any load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,

  • Ezek 27:16-18
    3 verses
    70%

    16Aram traded with you because of the vast amount of your products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

    17Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They traded wheat from Minnith, sweet confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

    18Damascus traded with you because of the abundance of your goods and the multitude of your wealth, offering wine from Helbon and fine white wool.

  • Ezek 27:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12Tarshish traded with you because of your great wealth of goods, exchanging silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

    13Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human lives and bronze articles for your merchandise.

  • Amos 8:5
    69%

    5saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit?

  • Joel 3:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5For you took my silver and my gold and carried my precious treasures into your temples.

    6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own territory.

  • Neh 13:12
    68%

    12All Judah then brought the tithes of grain, new wine, and olive oil into the storerooms.

  • Ezek 27:33
    68%

    33When your merchandise went out to the seas, you satisfied many peoples. With your abundant wealth and your goods, you enriched the kings of the earth.

  • Neh 3:32
    68%

    32Between the upper room at the corner and the Sheep Gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

  • 2 Chr 2:16
    68%

    16Then Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, as his father David had counted them, and they were found to be 153,600.

  • Isa 23:8
    67%

    8Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored in the earth?

  • Isa 23:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1This is a message concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed. The news has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

    2Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland, you merchants of Sidon, whose messengers cross over the sea.

  • Ezek 27:24
    67%

    24They sold you luxurious items, embroidered blue and multicolored garments, treasures of fine clothes, bound with strong cords, packed securely for your market.

  • Zeph 1:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10On that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District, and a loud crash from the hills.

    11Wail, you residents of the Mortar, for all the merchants are silenced; all who handle silver are cut off.

  • Luke 13:10
    67%

    10Now Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

  • Ezek 27:9
    67%

    9The elders of Gebal and its skilled workers repaired your leaks; all the ships of the sea and their sailors came to deal in your trade.

  • Jer 17:27
    67%

    27But if you do not obey Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any loads as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem and will not be extinguished.

  • Acts 13:14
    67%

    14Passing through Perga, they arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. On the Sabbath, they went into the synagogue and sat down.

  • Neh 3:3
    67%

    3The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams, set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    67%

    7They went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went to the Negev of Judah in Beersheba.

  • Jer 7:17
    66%

    17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Isa 23:17-18
    2 verses
    66%

    17At the end of seventy years, the LORD will attend to Tyre. She will return to her hire and will prostitute herself to all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

    18Yet her merchandise and her hire will be consecrated to the LORD; it will not be stored or hoarded, but it will provide for those who live in the presence of the LORD—for abundant food and fine clothing.

  • Neh 11:3
    66%

    3Here are the leaders of the province who settled in Jerusalem. But in the towns of Judah, everyone lived on their own land in their towns—Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon's servants.

  • 2 Chr 31:6
    66%

    6The people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks, and of the holy things dedicated to the Lord their God. They piled them in heaps.

  • John 2:13-14
    2 verses
    66%

    13When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

    14In the temple courts, He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money.

  • Ezra 7:17
    66%

    17With this silver, you shall diligently buy bulls, rams, and lambs, along with their grain and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 5:8
    66%

    8I said to them, 'We have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations, as much as we were able. Now, you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!' They stayed silent, unable to say a word.

  • Luke 13:14
    66%

    14But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, 'There are six days for work. So come to be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.'

  • Mark 11:16
    66%

    16He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    65%

    11They gave it to the craftsmen and builders to buy dressed stones, timber for joists, and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    65%

    6the carpenters, builders, and masons. It shall also be used to buy timber and quarried stone for repairing the house.

  • Neh 13:24
    65%

    24Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of other peoples, but they could not speak the language of Judah.

  • Acts 16:13
    65%

    13On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.