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Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage <i>already,</i> and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>I consulted with myself and contended with the nobles and the rulers and said to them, You are exacting usury, each from his brother! Therefore, I held a great assembly against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>I said to them, We according to our ability have redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us? Then they were silent and could not find a word <i>to say.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Again I said, The thing which 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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth <i>part</i> of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then they said, We will give <i>it</i> back and will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say. So I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>I also shook out the front of my garment and said, Thus may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not fulfill this promise; even thus may he be shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen! And they praised the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. Then the people did according to this promise. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Nehemiahs Example</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Moreover, from the day that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, <i>for</i> twelve years, neither I nor my kinsmen have eaten the governors food <i>allowance.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>I also applied myself to the work on this wall; we did not buy any land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Moreover, <i>there were</i> at my table one hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox <i>and</i> six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine <i>were furnished</i> in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the governors food <i>allowance,</i> because the servitude was heavy on this people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Remember me, O my God, for good, <i>according to</i> all that I have done for this people. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/nehemiah/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/nehemiah/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/nehemiah/5.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/nehemiah/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/nehemiah/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/nehemiah/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/nehemiah/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/an_ancient_nonconformist.htm">An Ancient Nonconformist</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'... So did not I, because of the fear of God.'--Neh. v. 15. I do not suppose that the ordinary Bible-reader knows very much about Nehemiah. He is one of the neglected great men of Scripture. He was no prophet, he had no glowing words, he had no lofty visions, he had no special commission, he did not live in the heroic age. There was a certain harshness and dryness; a tendency towards what, when it was more fully developed, became Pharisaism, in the man, which somewhat covers the essential nobleness <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/an_ancient_nonconformist.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/youthful_confessors.htm">Youthful Confessors</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9. Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. 10. And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink; for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/youthful_confessors.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_iithe_last_days_of_2.htm">The Last Days of the Old Eastern World</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Median wars--The last native dynasties of Egypt--The Eastern world on the eve of the Macedonian conquest. [Drawn by Boudier, from one of the sarcophagi of Sidon, now in the Museum of St. Irene. The vignette, which is by Faucher-Gudin, represents the sitting cyno-cephalus of Nectanebo I., now in the Egyptian Museum at the Vatican.] Darius appears to have formed this project of conquest immediately after his first victories, when his initial attempts to institute satrapies had taught him not <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_9/chapter_iithe_last_days_of_2.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 9</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kent/the_origin_and_permanent_value_of_the_old_testament/ix_influences_that_gave_rise.htm">Influences that Gave Rise to the Priestly Laws and Histories</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[Sidenote: Influences in the exile that produced written ceremonial laws] The Babylonian exile gave a great opportunity and incentive to the further development of written law. While the temple stood, the ceremonial rites and customs received constant illustration, and were transmitted directly from father to son in the priestly families. Hence, there was little need of writing them down. But when most of the priests were carried captive to Babylonia, as in 597 B.C., and ten years later the temple <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kent/the_origin_and_permanent_value_of_the_old_testament/ix_influences_that_gave_rise.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Foster Kent—</span><span class="citation2">The Origin & Permanent Value of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/ezra-nehemiah.htm">Ezra-Nehemiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Apart from these books, all that we know of the origin and early history of Judaism is inferential. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/ezra-nehemiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/nehemiah/5-1.htm">Nehemiah 5:1 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/nehemiah/5-1.htm">Nehemiah 5:1 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/nehemiah/5-1.htm">Nehemiah 5:1 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/nehemiah/5-1.htm">Nehemiah 5:1 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/nehemiah/5-1.htm">Nehemiah 5:1 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/nehemiah/5-1.htm">Nehemiah 5:1 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/nehemiah/5-1.htm">Nehemiah 5:1 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/4-23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 4:23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 4:23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../nehemiah/5-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Nehemiah 5:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 5:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/nehemiah/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>