Nehemiah 5:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ezra 4:13 : 13 Be it known now to the king, that, if this city is built, and the walls set up again, then they will not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so you will harm the revenue of the kings.
  • Ezra 4:20 : 20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, were paid to them.
  • Ezra 7:24 : 24 Also we certify you, that concerning any of the priests and Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 And 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.
  • Deut 28:47-48 : 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 48 Therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 And they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and serve under tribute.
  • 1 Kgs 9:21 : 21 Their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able to utterly destroy, upon those Solomon levied a tribute of servitude to this day.

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  • Neh 5:1-3
    3 verses
    90%

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

    2For 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.

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

  • Neh 5:5-12
    8 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Lam 5:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.

    2Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

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

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

    5Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

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

  • Neh 9:36-38
    3 verses
    76%

    36Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

    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.

    38And because of all this, we make a sure covenant and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests seal it.

  • Neh 10:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    32Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

  • Neh 5:16
    73%

    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.

  • Neh 10:37
    72%

    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.

  • Lam 5:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

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

  • Jer 35:9
    71%

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

  • Ezra 4:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Be it known now to the king, that, if this city is built, and the walls set up again, then they will not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so you will harm the revenue of the kings.

    14Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not proper for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore we have sent and certified the king;

  • Gen 47:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

    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.

  • Esth 7:4
    70%

    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.

  • Ezra 4:4
    70%

    4Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

  • Neh 4:4
    70%

    4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them as prey in a land of captivity:

  • Mic 2:4
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    4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Gen 31:15
    69%

    15Are we not regarded by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and has also utterly consumed our money.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    69%

    10And now you purpose to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as bondmen and bondwomen for yourselves, but are there not with you sins against the LORD your God?

  • Ezra 4:20
    69%

    20There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, were paid to them.

  • Ezra 9:7
    69%

    7Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Exod 22:25
    69%

    25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

  • Neh 4:22
    69%

    22At the same time I also said to the people, Let every man and his servant stay at night in Jerusalem, that they may be a guard to us by night, and a labor force by day.

  • Ezra 5:9
    69%

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

  • Isa 24:2
    69%

    2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

  • 1 Sam 8:15
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    15And he will take a tenth of your grain, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
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    4And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from any man's hand.

  • Ezra 5:4
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    4Then we said to them in this manner, What are the names of the men who are building this building?

  • Ezra 9:9
    68%

    9For we were bondservants, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, to repair its desolations, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Neh 10:35
    68%

    35And to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the LORD:

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.