Nehemiah 5:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

I 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.

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  • Lev 25:47-49 : 47 "'If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family; 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; 49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
  • Deut 24:7 : 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
  • Job 29:10 : 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
  • Job 32:15 : 15 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.
  • Matt 22:12 : 12 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.
  • Matt 25:15 : 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
  • Matt 25:29 : 29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has not, even that which he has will be taken away.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Cor 8:11 : 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
  • 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
  • Exod 21:16 : 16 "Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

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  • Neh 5:1-7
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    82%

    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.

    4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards.

    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.

  • Neh 5:9-12
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    79%

    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.

  • Esth 7:4
    76%

    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 5:8-11
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    75%

    8Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

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

    10We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at the head of them.

    11Thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

  • Neh 5:16
    74%

    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 10:31
    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.

  • Ezra 5:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

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

    5But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

  • Neh 2:20
    72%

    20Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 2:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16The rulers didn't know where I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

    17Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

    18I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. They said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good [work].

  • Ezra 9:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    10Now, our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your commandments,

  • 2 Chr 28:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    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?

    11Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you have taken captive of your brothers; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.

  • Amos 8:6
    71%

    6That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

  • Neh 4:2
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    2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?

  • Ezra 8:22
    71%

    22For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.

  • Ezra 8:25
    70%

    25and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counselors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:

  • Ezra 9:14
    70%

    14shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

  • Neh 13:27
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    27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

  • Joel 3:7
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    7Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, And will return your repayment on your own head;

  • Neh 4:11-12
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    11Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

    12It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.

  • Neh 1:2-3
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    2that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

    3They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates of it are burned with fire.

  • Ezra 10:2
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    2Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

  • Joel 3:4
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    4"Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, And all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

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    12You sell your people for nothing, And have gained nothing from their sale.

  • Gen 31:15
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    15Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

  • Neh 4:15
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    15It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.

  • Neh 13:21
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    21Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.

  • Ezra 6:8
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    8Moreover I make a decree what you shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered.

  • Gen 44:7
    69%

    7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

  • Ezra 8:17
    69%

    17I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [and] his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.