Nehemiah 5:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 4:13 : 13 `Now, be it known to the king, that if this city be builded, and the walls finished, toll, tribute, and custom they do not give; and at length `to' the kings it doth cause loss.
  • Ezra 4:20 : 20 and mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, even rulers over all beyond the river, and toll, tribute, and custom is given to them.
  • Ezra 7:24 : 24 `And to you we are making known, that upon any of the priests and Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, and servants of the house of God, tribute and custom there is no authority to lift up.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we `are' in great distress.
  • Deut 28:47-48 : 47 `Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things -- 48 thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 and they have not dispossessed the Canaanite who is dwelling in Gezer, and the Canaanite dwelleth in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and is to tribute -- a servant.
  • 1 Kgs 9:21 : 21 their sons who are left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel have not been able to devote -- he hath even lifted up `on' them a tribute of service unto this day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 5:1-3
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    90%

    1And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,

    2yea, there are who are saying, `Our sons, and our daughters, we -- are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.'

    3And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.'

  • Neh 5:5-12
    8 verses
    86%

    5and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

    6And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words,

    7and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

    8and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that `is' in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

    9And I say, `Not good `is' the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

    10And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

    11Give back, I pray you, to them, as to-day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth `part' of the money, and of the corn, of the new wine, and of the oil, that ye are exacting of them.'

    12And they say, `We give back, and of them we seek nothing; so we do as thou art saying.' And I call the priests, and cause them to swear to do according to this thing;

  • Lam 5:1-6
    6 verses
    76%

    1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

    2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

    3Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.

    4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

    5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

    6`To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Neh 9:36-38
    3 verses
    76%

    36`Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,

    37and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we `are' in great distress.

    38And for all this we are making a stedfast covenant, and are writing, and over him who is sealed `are' our heads, our Levites, our priests.'

  • Neh 10:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31and the peoples of the land who are bringing in the wares and any corn on the sabbath-day to sell, we receive not of them on the sabbath, and on a holy day, and we leave the seventh year, and usury on every hand.

    32And we have appointed for ourselves commands, to put on ourselves the third of a shekel in a year, for the service of the house of our God,

  • Neh 5:16
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    16And also, in the work of this wall I have done mightily, even a field we have not bought, and all my servants are gathered there for the work;

  • Neh 10:37
    72%

    37And the beginning of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of oil, we bring in to the priests, unto the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites; and they -- the Levites -- have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage;

  • Lam 5:8-9
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    8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

    9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Jer 35:9
    71%

    9nor to build houses for our dwelling; and vineyard, and field, and seed, we have none;

  • Ezra 4:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13`Now, be it known to the king, that if this city be builded, and the walls finished, toll, tribute, and custom they do not give; and at length `to' the kings it doth cause loss.

    14Now, because that the salt of the palace `is' our salt, and the nakedness of the king we have no patience to see, therefore we have sent and made known to the king;

  • Gen 47:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18And that year is finished, and they come in unto him on the second year, and say to him, `We do not hide from my lord, that since the money hath been finished, and possession of the cattle `is' unto my lord, there hath not been left before my lord save our bodies, and our ground;

    19why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'

  • Esth 7:4
    70%

    4for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

  • Ezra 4:4
    70%

    4And it cometh to pass, the people of the land are making the hands of the people of Judah feeble, and troubling them in building,

  • Neh 4:4
    70%

    4Hear, O our God, for we have been despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them for a spoil in a land of captivity;

  • Mic 2:4
    70%

    4In that day doth `one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

  • Gen 31:15
    69%

    15have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    69%

    10and now, sons of Judah and Jerusalem ye are saying to subdue for men-servants and for maid-servants to you; but are there not with you causes of guilt before Jehovah your God?

  • Ezra 4:20
    69%

    20and mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, even rulers over all beyond the river, and toll, tribute, and custom is given to them.

  • Ezra 9:7
    69%

    7`From the days of our fathers we `are' in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given -- we, our kings, our priests -- into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as `at' this day.

  • Exod 22:25
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    25`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

  • Neh 4:22
    69%

    22Also, at that time I said to the people, `Let each with his servant lodge in the midst of Jerusalem, and they have been to us by night a guard, and by day `for' the work:'

  • Ezra 5:9
    69%

    9Then we have asked of these elders, thus we have said to them, Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?

  • Isa 24:2
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    2And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting `it' on himself.

  • 1 Sam 8:15
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    15And your seed and your vineyards he doth tithe, and hath given to his eunuchs, and to his servants.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
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    4And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'

  • Ezra 5:4
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    4Then thus we have said to them, `What `are' the names of the men who are building this building?'

  • Ezra 9:9
    68%

    9for servants we `are', and in our servitude our God hath not forsaken us, and stretcheth out unto us kindness before the kings of Persia, to give to us a quickening to lift up the house of our God, and to cause its wastes to cease, and to give to us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  • Neh 10:35
    68%

    35and to bring in the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of Jehovah,

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    68%

    11and lo, they are recompensing to us -- to come in to drive us out of Thy possession, that Thou hast caused us to possess.