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    Nehemiah · 19 verses

    Nehemiah 5

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    Nehemiah shook out his robe, and the whole assembly answered the gesture with “Amen” before praising the LORD.

    A sale that comes back roundvv. 1–13

    The people and their wives cry out over grain, mortgages, taxes, and children forced into slavery. Nehemiah becomes extremely angry, then discovers the most grotesque turn of the matter: Jewish brothers are being sold by their own people so that their own people may buy them back. The nobles and officials fall silent; the assembly is summoned; fields, vineyards, houses, and assessed goods are ordered restored. Then the robe is shaken out as a kind of portable courtroom, and the whole assembly agrees to the curse and keeps the promise.

    The governor’s tablevv. 14–19

    Nehemiah says that, for twelve years, he and his brothers did not eat the food allotted to the governor. He also says that 150 Jews and officials, along with guests from surrounding nations, sat at his table, where an ox, six choice sheep, fowl, and regular wine appeared. The distinction is carefully made: this was his table, but not the governor’s demanded allowance, because the burden on the people was heavy. Meanwhile, his servants worked on the wall and acquired no land.

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    1. Neh 5:1About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

    2. Neh 5:2Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

    3. Neh 5:3Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

    4. Neh 5:4Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

    5. Neh 5:5We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

    6. Neh 5:6When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,

    7. Neh 5:7and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them

    8. Neh 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

    9. Neh 5:9So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

    10. Neh 5:10I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

    11. Neh 5:11Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”

    12. Neh 5:12“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.

    13. Neh 5:13I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

    14. Neh 5:14Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

    15. Neh 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.

    16. Neh 5:16Instead, I devoted myself to the construction of the wall, and all my servants were gathered there for the work; we did not acquire any land.

    17. Neh 5:17There were 150 Jews and officials at my table, besides the guests from the surrounding nations.

    18. Neh 5:18Each day one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine was provided. But I did not demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.

    19. Neh 5:19Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

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    • 15Nehemiah 5:9So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
    • 19Nehemiah 13:31I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
    • 7Leviticus 25:36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
    • 7Deuteronomy 23:19–20Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
    • 4Ezra 4:13Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, they will not pay tribute, duty, or toll, and the royal treasury will suffer.
    • 7Exodus 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
    • 12Ezra 10:5So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.
    • 13Acts 18:6But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
    • 19Psalms 106:4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,
    • 19Nehemiah 13:14Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
    • 19Nehemiah 13:22Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.
    • 5Leviticus 25:39–43If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
    • 52 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
    • 14Nehemiah 13:6While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. Some time later I obtained leave from the king
    • 15Proverbs 16:6By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
    • 15Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

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