Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

a great cry

Exodus 3:7 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

Exodus 22:25-27 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries. . . .

Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: . . .

Job 34:28 So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

Luke 18:7 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

their brethren

Leviticus 25:35-37 If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee: . . .

Deuteronomy 15:7-11 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand, . . .

Acts 7:26 And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another?

1 Corinthians 6:6-8 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. . . .