And 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, I have surely seen the affliction of my people …
Exodus 22:25-27 If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall …
Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain…
Job 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears …
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and …
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to …
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …
their brethren
Leviticus 25:35-37 And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; …
Deuteronomy 15:7-11 If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any …
Acts 7:26 And the next day he showed himself to them as they strove, and would …
1 Corinthians 6:6-8 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers…
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
I consulted with myself. Heb. my heart consulted in me
Psalm 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, …
Psalm 27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, …
I rebuked
Leviticus 19:15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect …
2 Chronicles 19:6,7 And said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not …
Psalm 82:1-4 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods…
Proverbs 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
2 Corinthians 5:16 Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have …
Galatians 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, …
1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Titus 2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let …
Ye exact usury
Exodus 22:25 If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall …
Leviticus 25:36 Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your …
Deuteronomy 15:2,3 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends …
Deuteronomy 23:19,20 You shall not lend on usury to your brother; usury of money, usury …
Deuteronomy 24:10-13 When you do lend your brother any thing, you shall not go into his …
Psalm 15:1,5 Lord, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill…
Ezekiel 22:12 In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase…
Ezekiel 45:9 Thus said the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: …
I set a great assembly
2 Chronicles 28:9-13 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he …
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but …
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
We after
Matthew 25:15,29 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; …
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …
Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially …
redeemed
Leviticus 25:47-49 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you, and your brother …
sell your
Exodus 21:16 And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his …
Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of …
shall they
Romans 14:15 But if your brother be grieved with your meat, now walk you not charitably. …
1 Corinthians 8:11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
held
Job 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job 32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
Matthew 22:12 And he said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding …
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them …
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
It is not
1 Samuel 2:24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's …
Proverbs 16:29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs 17:26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the …
Proverbs 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he …
Proverbs 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect …
walk
Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable …
Genesis 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not …
Genesis 42:18 And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
Leviticus 25:36 Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your …
Acts 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and …
reproach
Genesis 13:7,8 And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and …
2 Samuel 12:14 However,, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the …
Ezekiel 36:20 And when they entered to the heathen, where they went, they profaned …
Romans 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, …
1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house…
Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their …
1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas …
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
I likewise
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
Luke 3:13,14 And he said to them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you…
1 Corinthians 9:12-18 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? …
I pray you
2 Corinthians 5:11,20 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we …
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you …
Philemon 1:8,9 Why, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin you that which …
leave
Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, …
Exodus 22:25-27 If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall …
Psalm 15:5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against …
Ezekiel 18:8,13 He that has not given forth on usury, neither has taken any increase, …
Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Restore
Leviticus 6:4,5 Then it shall be, because he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall …
1 Samuel 12:3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …
2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, …
Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, …
Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not …
their lands
Nehemiah 5:3,4 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, …
the hundredth (This was probably the rate of interest which they obliged their poor debtors to pay each month, which would amount to about
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
We will restore
2 Chronicles 28:14,15 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes …
Ezra 10:12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As …
Matthew 19:21,22 Jesus said to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell that you have, …
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half …
I called
Nehemiah 10:29 They joined to their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, …
Nehemiah 13:25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of …
2 Kings 23:2,3 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men …
2 Chronicles 6:22,23 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to …
2 Chronicles 15:13,14 That whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put …
Ezra 10:5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all …
Jeremiah 34:8-10 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD…
Matthew 26:63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said to …
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
I shook my lap (So 'when the Roman ambassadors entered the senate of Carthage, they had their toga gathered up in their bosom, and said, We carry here peace and war; you may have which you will. The senate answered, You may give which you please. They then shook their toga, and said, We bring you war.'--Livy.)
Matthew 10:14 And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you …
Acts 13:51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
Acts 18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, …
So God
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from …
1 Kings 11:29-31 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, …
Zechariah 5:3,4 Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face …
emptied. Heb. empty, or void. Amen
Numbers 5:22 And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to …
Deuteronomy 27:14-26 And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with …
praised
1 Chronicles 16:36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the …
the people
2 Kings 23:3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, …
Psalm 50:14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High:
Psalm 76:11 Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that be round about him …
Psalm 119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
Ecclesiastes 5:5 Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
even their
1 Samuel 2:15-17 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said …
1 Samuel 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and …
Proverbs 29:12 If a ruler listen to lies, all his servants are wicked.
so did
Matthew 5:47 And if you salute your brothers only, what do you more than others? …
2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man…
2 Corinthians 12:13 For what is it wherein you were inferior to other churches, except …
because
Nehemiah 5:9 Also I said, It is not good that you do…
Job 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his …
Psalm 112:1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …
Psalm 147:11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD …
Ecclesiastes 12:13,14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep …
Isaiah 50:10 Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his …
Luke 18:2-4 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither …
Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
I continued
Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good …
Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and …
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always …
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall …
neither bought
Numbers 16:15 And Moses was very wroth, and said to the LORD, Respect not you their …
Acts 20:33-35 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel…
1 Thessalonians 2:5,6 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor …
all my
2 Corinthians 12:16-18 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I …
Philippians 2:20,21 For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state…
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Now that
1 Kings 4:22,23 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, …
one ox (This was food sufficient for more than two hundred men. Bp. Pococke says that the bey of Tunis had daily twelve sheep, with fish and fowls, soups, oranges, eggs, onions, boiled rice, etc., etc. His nobles dined with him; after they had done, the servants sat down; and when they had finished, the poor took what was left. Here the bey's twelve sheep are equal to Nehemiah's one ox and six choice sheep; and probably the mode of living between the two was nearly alike. It is still the practice in the East to calculate the expenses of the table, not by the money paid, but by the provisions consumed by the guests.)
required
Nehemiah 5:14,15 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor …
because the bondage
Psalm 37:21,26 The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, …
Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
Think
Nehemiah 13:14,22,31 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good …
Genesis 40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with you, and show kindness, …
Psalm 25:6,7 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses; …
Psalm 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help …
Psalm 106:4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that you bore to your people: …
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts …
according to
Psalm 18:23-25 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity…
Matthew 10:42 And whoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup …
Matthew 25:34-40 Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed …
Mark 9:41 For whoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because …
