Nehemiah 5:15
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| Overview - Nehemiah 5 | |
| 1 | The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage. |
| 6 | Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution. |
| 14 | He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality. |
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Nehemiah 5:15 (King James Version)
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 ; 8:15 Proverbs 29:12
- so did
- Matthew 5:47 ; 2 Corinthians 11:9 ; 12:13
- because
- 9 ; Job 31:23 ; Psalms 112:1 ; 147:11 Proverbs 16:6 ; Ecclesiastes 12:13 Ecclesiastes 12:14 ; Isaiah 50:10
- Luke 18:2-4