Nehemiah 5:6

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

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  • Exod 11:8 : 8 All these servants of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying, ‘Leave, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will go out." And he left Pharaoh in hot anger.
  • Num 16:15 : 15 Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, "Do not accept their offering. I have not taken even a single donkey from them, nor have I wronged any one of them."
  • Neh 13:8 : 8 I was greatly displeased, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household belongings out of the room.
  • Neh 13:25 : 25 So I confronted them, cursed them, struck some of them, pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God: 'You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.'
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 Looking around at them with anger and deeply distressed at the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.
  • Eph 4:26 : 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

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  • Neh 5:7-12
    6 verses
    83%

    7 I 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.

    8 I 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.

    9 Then 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?'

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

    11 Return 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 5:1-5
    5 verses
    77%

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

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

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

    4 Still 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.'

  • Neh 1:3-4
    2 verses
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    3 They said to me, 'Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.'

    4 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned, fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.

  • 15 But I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they added to the harm.

  • 11 Now listen to me! Send back your captives whom you have taken from your relatives, for the LORD’s fierce anger is against you.

  • 6 So my fury and my anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, making them a desolate ruin, as they are today.

  • 1 When Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem was advancing and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.

  • 6 I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

  • 11 So I rebuked the officials and asked, "Why is the house of God neglected?" Then I gathered them together and stationed them at their posts.

  • 7 So I stationed people in the lowest parts behind the wall, in the open areas, and I positioned them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.

  • Ezra 9:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 When I heard this, I tore my garment and my robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down appalled.

    4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of this unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered around me as I sat there appalled until the evening sacrifice.

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    23 My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

    24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

  • 8 I was greatly displeased, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household belongings out of the room.

  • 17 Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates have been burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace."

  • 6 For how can I bear to see the disaster that will fall on my people? How can I endure the destruction of my kindred?

  • 25 So I confronted them, cursed them, struck some of them, pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God: 'You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.'

  • 34 When the LORD heard what you said, He became angry and swore an oath:

  • 10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger may turn away from us.

  • 11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the streets and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the old and those advanced in years.

  • 5 Our enemies said, 'They won’t know or see a thing until we come among them, kill them, and stop the work.'

  • 18 Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have compassion. Even though they cry out loudly in My ears, I will not hear them.'

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

  • 8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, devastation, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • 20 Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, 'Because this nation has violated the covenant I commanded their ancestors and has not listened to my voice,'

  • 10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply displeased that someone had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.

  • 12 'But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, He gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.'

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    5 Then He speaks to them in His anger and terrifies them in His wrath:

  • Jer 32:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    31 From the day it was built until now, this city has caused My anger and My wrath so great that I must remove it from My presence.

    32 It is because of all the evil that the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger. Their kings, princes, priests, prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem have all been guilty.

  • 6 The LORD said to me, ‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Listen to the words of this covenant and do them.’

  • 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

  • 9 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 27 In His anger and great wrath, the LORD uprooted them from their land and cast them into another land, as it is today.

  • 16 Instead, 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.

  • 2 The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.