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Nehemiah 5:8-18

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8 I said to them, "We according to our ability 1have 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 to say.
9 Again I said, "The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of 2the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
10 "And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury.
11 "Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them."
12 Then they said, "We 3will give it back and 4will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say." So I called the priests and 5took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.
13 I 6also 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 7all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised the LORD. Then the people did according to this promise.

Nehemiah's Example

14 Moreover, from the day that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from 8the twentieth year to the 9thirty-second * year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve * years, neither I nor my kinsmen have eaten the governor's food allowance.
15 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 10because * of the fear of God.
16 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.
17 Moreover, 11there were at my table one hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.
18 Now 12that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance. Yet for all this 13I did not demand the governor's food allowance, because the servitude was heavy on this people.
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Nehemiah 5:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 5

In this chapter is a complaint of the poor against the rich for oppression of them, Ne 5:1-5 for which Nehemiah being angry, reproved them, and made them promise, and swear to it, to make restitution, Ne 5:6-13 and set them an example himself, taking nothing of them during his twelve years' government, supporting himself and his at his own expenses, Ne 5:14-19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 13

  • 1. Leviticus 25:48
  • 2. Nehemiah 4:4
  • 3. 2 Chronicles 28:15
  • 4. Nehemiah 10:31
  • 5. Ezra 10:5
  • 6. Acts 18:6
  • 7. Nehemiah 8:6
  • 8. Nehemiah 1:1
  • 9. Nehemiah 13:6
  • 10. Nehemiah 5:9; Job 31:23
  • 11. 1 Kings 18:19
  • 12. 1 Kings 4:22, 23
  • 13. 2 Thessalonians 3:8

Footnotes 8

  • [a] Lit "bought"
  • [b] Lit "word"
  • [c] Lit "bosom"
  • [d] Lit "word"
  • [e] Lit "word"
  • [f] Lit "brothers"
  • [g] Lit "made heavy"
  • [h] Or "held fast"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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