Nehemiah 5:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live.

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  • Gen 41:57 : 57 All countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was so severe in all the lands.
  • Gen 42:2 : 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.
  • Gen 43:8 : 8 And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, you, and also our little ones.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty warrior, so are the children of one's youth. 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
  • Ps 128:2-4 : 2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you. 3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants around your table. 4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.
  • Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already because you do not take it to heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 5:3-12
    10 verses
    84%

    3Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine.

    4There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

    6And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

    7Then I consulted with myself and rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, You are charging interest, each one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them.

    8And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.

    9Also I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

    10I likewise, and my brethren and my servants, could demand money and grain from them. I pray you, let us stop this interest.

    11Restore to them, I pray you, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil, that you are charging them.

    12Then they said, We will restore them, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.

  • Neh 5:1
    80%

    1And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

  • Ezra 10:13
    72%

    13But there are many people, and it is a time of heavy rain, and we are not able to stand outside. Nor is this a task that can be accomplished in a day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

  • Ps 144:13
    71%

    13That our garners may be full, providing all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

  • Gen 42:2
    71%

    2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    70%

    9For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Neh 10:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

    31And if the people of the land bring goods or any food on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would forgo the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

  • Lam 5:9
    70%

    9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Lam 5:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

    4We have drunk our own water for money; our wood is sold to us.

  • Lam 5:6
    70%

    6We have given our hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.

  • 1 Sam 2:5
    70%

    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

  • Josh 2:13
    70%

    13And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

  • Neh 4:12
    69%

    12And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, From whatever place you turn, they will be upon us.

  • Gen 42:5
    69%

    5And the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

  • Judg 21:22
    69%

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

  • Amos 8:6
    69%

    6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

  • Gen 47:19
    69%

    19Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

  • Jer 35:9
    69%

    9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: nor have vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • Neh 9:37
    68%

    37And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Neh 2:17
    68%

    17Then I said to them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

  • Neh 5:16
    68%

    16Indeed, I also devoted myself to the work on this wall and did not buy any land. All my servants were gathered there for the work.

  • Num 14:3
    68%

    3Why has the LORD brought us to this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

  • Acts 7:11
    68%

    11Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

  • Gen 43:2
    68%

    2And it came to pass, when they had consumed the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

  • Neh 10:37
    68%

    37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

  • Ezra 5:9
    68%

    9Then we asked those elders and said to them, Who commanded you to build this house and to finish these walls?

  • Ezra 8:21
    68%

    21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our goods.

  • Ezra 10:2
    68%

    2And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have sinned against our God and have taken foreign wives from the peoples of the land, yet now there is hope for Israel in this matter.

  • Neh 4:14
    67%

    14And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Do not be afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

  • Jer 44:17
    67%

    17But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

  • Ezra 5:4
    67%

    4Then we said to them in this manner, What are the names of the men who are building this building?

  • Esth 7:4
    67%

    4For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. But if we had been sold as slaves, I would have remained silent, although the enemy could not compensate for the king's loss.