Nehemiah 5:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

For there were that said, We, our sonnes & our daughters are many, therefore we take vp corne, that we may eate and liue.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 41:57 : 57 And all countries came to Egypt to bye corne of Ioseph, because the famine was sore in all landes.
  • Gen 42:2 : 2 And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, & bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.
  • Gen 43:8 : 8 Then sayde Iudah to Israel his father, Send the boy with mee, that we may rise and goe, and that we may liue and not dye, both we, and thou, and our children.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Beholde, children are the inheritance of the Lord, and the fruite of the wombe his rewarde. 4 As are the arrowes in the hand of ye strong man: so are the children of youth. 5 Blessed is the man, that hath his quiuer full of them: for they shall not be ashamed, when they speake with their enemies in the gate.
  • Ps 128:2-4 : 2 When thou eatest the labours of thine hands, thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee. 3 Thy wife shalbe as the fruitfull vine on the sides of thine house, and thy children like the oliue plantes round about thy table. 4 Lo, surely thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the Lord.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If yee will not heare it, nor consider it in your heart, to giue glory vnto my Name, sayth the Lorde of hostes, I will euen sende a curse vpon you, and will curse your blessings: yea, I haue cursed them alreadie, because yee doe not consider it in your heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Neh 5:3-12
    10 verses
    84%

    3And there were that saide, We must gage our landes, and our vineyardes, and our houses, and take vp corne for the famine.

    4There were also that said, We haue borowed money for the Kings tribute vpon our landes and our vineyardes.

    5And nowe our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, and our sonnes as their sonnes: and lo, we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters, as seruants, and there be of our daughters nowe in subiection, and there is no power in our handes: for other men haue our landes and our vineyardes.

    6Then was I very angrie when I heard their crie and these wordes.

    7And I thought in my minde, and I rebuked the princes, and the rulers, and saide vnto them, You lay burthens euery one vpon his brethren: and I set a great assemblie against them,

    8And I said vnto them, We (according to our abilitie) haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were solde vnto the heathen: and will you sell your brethren againe, or shall they be solde vnto vs? Then helde they their peace, and could not answere.

    9I said also, That which ye do, is not good. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, for the reproche of the heathen our enemies?

    10For euen I, my brethren, and my seruants doe lende them money and corne: I pray you, let vs leaue off this burden.

    11Restore, I pray you, vnto them this day their landes, their vineyardes, their oliues, & their houses, and remit the hundreth part of the siluer and of the corne, of the wine, and of the oyle that ye exact of them.

    12Then said they, We will restore it, and will not require it of them: we will doe as thou hast said. Then I called the Priestes, and caused them to sweare, that they shoulde doe according to this promes.

  • Neh 5:1
    80%

    1Nowe there was a great crie of the people, and of their wiues against their brethren the Iewes.

  • Ezra 10:13
    72%

    13But the people are many, and it is a raynie weather, and we are not able to stande without, neither is it the worke of one day or two: for we are many that haue offended in this thing.

  • Ps 144:13
    71%

    13That our corners may be full, and abounding with diuers sorts, and that our sheepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousand in our streetes:

  • Gen 42:2
    71%

    2And he said, Behold, I haue heard that there is foode in Egypt, Get you downe thither, & bie vs foode thence, that we may liue and not die.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    70%

    9For lo, our fathers are fallen by the sword, and our sonnes, and our daughters, and our wiues are in captiuitie for the same cause.

  • Neh 10:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30And that we would not giue our daughters to the people of the lande, neither take their daughters for our sonnes.

    31And if the people of the lande brought ware on the Sabbath, or any vitailes to sell, that we would not take it of them on the Sabbath and on the holy dayes: and that we would let the seuenth yeere be free, and the debtes of euery person.

  • Lam 5:9
    70%

    9Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

  • Lam 5:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

    4Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.

  • Lam 5:6
    70%

    6We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    70%

    5They that were full, are hired foorth for bread, and the hungrie are no more hired, so that the barren hath borne seuen: and shee that had many children, is feeble.

  • Josh 2:13
    70%

    13And that yee will saue aliue my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that yee will deliuer our soules from death.

  • Neh 4:12
    69%

    12But when the Iewes (which dwelt beside them) came, they told vs ten times, From all places whece ye shal returne, they wil be vpon vs.

  • Gen 42:5
    69%

    5And the sonnes of Israel came to bye foode among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan.

  • Judg 21:22
    69%

    22And when their fathers or their brethren come vnto vs to complaine, we wil say vnto them, Haue pitie on them for our sakes, because we reserued not to eche man his wife in the warre, and because ye haue not giuen vnto them hitherto, ye haue sinned.

  • Amos 8:6
    69%

    6That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.

  • Gen 47:19
    69%

    19Why shall we perish in thy sight, both we, and our land? bye vs and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bonde to Pharaoh: therefore giue vs seede, that we may liue and not dye, and that the land go not to waste.

  • Jer 35:9
    69%

    9Neither builde wee houses for vs to dwell in, neither haue we vineyard, nor fielde, nor seede,

  • Neh 9:37
    68%

    37And it yeeldeth much fruit vnto the kings whom thou hast set ouer vs, because of our sinnes: and they haue dominion ouer our bodyes and ouer our cattell at their pleasure, and we are in great affliction.

  • Neh 2:17
    68%

    17Afterward I said vnto them, Ye see the miserie that we are in, how Ierusalem lyeth waste, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire: come and let vs buylde the wall of Ierusalem, that we be no more a reproche.

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take you wiues, and beget sonnes and daughters, and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, that they may beare sonnes and daughters, that ye may bee increased there, and not diminished.

  • Neh 5:16
    68%

    16But rather I fortified a portio in the worke of this wall, and we bought no lande, and all my seruants came thither together vnto the worke.

  • Num 14:3
    68%

    3Wherefore nowe hath the Lorde brought vs into this lande to fall vpon the sworde? Our wiues, and our children shall be a pray: were it not better for vs to returne into Egypt?

  • Acts 7:11
    68%

    11Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance.

  • Gen 43:2
    68%

    2And when they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto them, Turne againe, and bye vs a little foode.

  • Neh 10:37
    68%

    37And that we should bring the first fruite of our dough, and our offrings, and the fruite of euery tree, of wine and of oyle, vnto the Priests, to the chambers of the house of our God: and the tithes of our lande vnto the Leuites, that the Leuites might haue the tithes in all the cities of our trauaile.

  • Ezra 5:9
    68%

    9Then asked we those Elders, and sayd vnto them thus, Who hath giuen you commandement to buylde this house, and to lay the foundation of these walles?

  • Ezra 8:21
    68%

    21And there at the Riuer, by Ahaua, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our God, and seeke of him a right way for vs, & for our children, and for all our substance.

  • Ezra 10:2
    68%

    2Then Shechaniah the sonne of Iehiel one of the sonnes of Elam answered, & sayd to Ezra, We haue trespassed against our God, & haue taken strange wiues of the people of the land, yet nowe there is hope in Israel concerning this.

  • Neh 4:14
    67%

    14Then I behelde, and rose vp, and said vnto the Princes, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afrayde of them: remember the great Lorde, and fearefull, and fight for your brethren, your sonnes, and your daughters, your wiues, and your houses.

  • Jer 44:17
    67%

    17But wee will doe whatsoeuer thing goeth out of our owne mouth, as to burne incense vnto the Queene of heauen, and to powre out drinke offerings vnto her, as we haue done, both we & our fathers, our Kings and our princes in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem: for then had wee plentie of vitailes and were well and felt none euill.

  • Ezra 5:4
    67%

    4Then sayde we vnto them after this maner, What are the names of the men that buylde this buylding?

  • Esth 7:4
    67%

    4For we are solde, I, & my people, to be destroyed, to be slayne and to perish: but if we were solde for seruants, and for handmaides, I woulde haue helde my tongue: although the aduersarie could not recompense the Kings losse.