Nehemiah 5:3

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Others were saying, 'We have had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and houses to get grain during the famine.'

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  • Gen 47:15-25 : 15 When the money from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, 'Give us food! Why should we die in front of you? For our money is gone.' 16 Joseph said, 'Bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for them if your money is gone.' 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks of sheep, the herds of cattle, and the donkeys. He provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. 18 When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said, 'We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and our livestock has been given to you. There is nothing left for our lord but our bodies and our land.' 19 'Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.' 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s. 21 As for the people, he relocated them to the cities, from one end of Egypt's border to the other. 22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, because they received a fixed provision from Pharaoh and lived on that provision which Pharaoh gave them; therefore, they did not sell their land. 23 Then Joseph said to the people, 'Now that I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh, here is seed for you to sow in the land.' 24 When the harvest comes, you must give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The remaining four parts will be yours as seed for the field, as food for yourselves, for those in your households, and for your children to eat. 25 They replied, 'You have saved our lives! May we find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will be servants to Pharaoh.'
  • Lev 25:35-39 : 35 If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or temporary resident, so they can live among you. 36 Do not take interest or profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. 37 You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food for profit. 38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. 39 If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.
  • Deut 15:7 : 7 If there is a poor person among your brothers within any of your gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother.
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you ask, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord of Hosts, and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your ground. Your vine in the field will not fail to bear fruit, says the Lord of Hosts.

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  • Neh 5:4-12
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    4Still others were saying, 'We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.'

    5'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

    6When I heard their outcry and these words, I became extremely angry.

    7I took counsel with myself, and then I confronted the nobles and officials, saying to them, 'You are exacting interest from your own people!' So I called together a large assembly to deal with them.

    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.

    9Then I said, 'What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of the nations, our enemies?'

    10I and my brothers and my men are also lending money and grain, but let us stop charging interest on them.

    11Return to them this very day their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, as well as the interest you are charging them—on the money, grain, new wine, and olive oil.

    12'We will give it back,' they responded, 'and we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.' Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised.

  • Neh 5:1-2
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    84%

    1There arose a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

    2Some were saying, 'We, along with our sons and daughters, are numerous. Let us get grain that we may eat and stay alive.'

  • Lam 5:2-6
    5 verses
    74%

    2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

    3We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

    4We must pay for the water we drink; even our wood comes at a price.

    5We are pursued with burdens upon our necks; we are weary and find no rest.

    6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

  • Gen 47:18-20
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    71%

    18When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said, 'We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and our livestock has been given to you. There is nothing left for our lord but our bodies and our land.'

    19'Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.'

    20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s.

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

    9We risk our lives to bring in our bread because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Amos 8:6
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    6Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'

  • Jer 35:9
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    9We do not build houses to live in, or own vineyards, fields, or seed.

  • Neh 9:36-37
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    36Here we are today, slaves in the land You gave to our ancestors so they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness—here we are, slaves in it!

    37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

  • Neh 10:31-32
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    31They pledged not to give their daughters in marriage to the peoples of the land or to take their daughters for their sons.

    32We also pledged not to buy the merchandise or any grain that the peoples of the land brought to sell on the Sabbath or on any holy day. We agreed to let the land rest during the seventh year and cancel every debt.

  • Gen 47:15
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    15When the money from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, 'Give us food! Why should we die in front of you? For our money is gone.'

  • Isa 5:8-9
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    69%

    8Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no room, and you live alone in the midst of the land.

    9The Lord of Hosts said in my hearing: Truly, many houses will become desolate—large and beautiful ones, without occupants.

  • Jer 32:43
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    43Fields will once again be purchased in this land about which you are saying, 'It is a desolate place without man or beast; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans.'

  • Gen 43:1
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    1Now the famine was severe in the land.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • Neh 5:16
    69%

    16Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. We did not acquire any land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

  • Acts 7:11
    69%

    11Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food.

  • Josh 9:12
    69%

    12This bread of ours was warm when we took it as provisions from our houses on the day we set out to come to you, but now it is dry and crumbled.

  • Joel 1:17
    68%

    17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Neh 10:37
    68%

    37We agreed to bring the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.

  • Gen 31:15
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    15Does he not regard us as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even spent what was paid for us.

  • Gen 41:57
    68%

    57And people from all the surrounding lands came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the lands.

  • Gen 42:5
    68%

    5So the sons of Israel came to buy grain, along with others who were coming, for the famine was also in the land of Canaan.

  • Job 5:5
    67%

    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • Gen 47:13
    67%

    13There was no food in the entire land because the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away under the pressure of the famine.

  • Jer 32:15
    67%

    15For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.

  • Lev 25:20
    67%

    20If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our crops?'

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    67%

    5'Those who were full hire themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. The barren woman has borne seven children, but she who has many sons languishes.'

  • Joel 1:10
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    10The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

  • Ezra 5:9
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    9'Then we asked those elders, and we said to them, "Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and complete this structure?"'

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, daughters, and wives are in captivity today.