Nehemiah 5:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our 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 finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
  • Ezra 4:20 : 20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
  • Ezra 7:24 : 24 Also we inform you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on them.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
  • Deut 28:47-48 : 47 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; 48 therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh 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 on your neck, until he have destroyed you.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and are become servants to do forced labor.
  • 1 Kgs 9:21 : 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.

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  • Neh 5:1-3
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    90%

    1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

    2For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

    3Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

  • Neh 5:5-12
    8 verses
    86%

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

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

    7Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother. I held a great assembly against them.

    8I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

    9Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

    10I likewise, my brothers and my servants, do lend them money and grain. Please let us leave off this usury.

    11Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.

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

  • Lam 5:1-6
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    76%

    1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

    2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

    4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

    5Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Neh 9:36-38
    3 verses
    76%

    36Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.

    37It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

    38Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.

  • Neh 10:31-32
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    73%

    31and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego 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
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    16Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.

  • Neh 10:37
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    37and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    72%

    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

    9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Jer 35:9
    71%

    9nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • Ezra 4:13-14
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    13Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

    14Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore have we sent and informed the king;

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    70%

    18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

    19Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

  • Esth 7:4
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    4for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.

  • 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, our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • Mic 2:4
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    4In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.

  • Gen 31:15
    69%

    15Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    69%

    10Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids to you: [but] aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?

  • Ezra 4:20
    69%

    20There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all [the country] beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.

  • Ezra 9:7
    69%

    7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Exod 22:25
    69%

    25"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

  • Neh 4:22
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    22Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.

  • Ezra 5:9
    69%

    9Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

  • Isa 24:2
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    2It 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

  • 1 Sam 8:15
    69%

    15He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

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

  • Ezra 5:4
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    4Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men were who were making this building.

  • Ezra 9:9
    68%

    9For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins of it, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 10:35
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    35and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.