Nehemiah 5:1

Nehemiah 5:1
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

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Genesis 4:10
And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

Exodus 2:24
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

Exodus 3:9
For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

Job 24:12
From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

Job 35:9
Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

Psalms 12:5
Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Psalms 43:2
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Psalms 55:2
Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

Psalms 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

Psalms 56:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

Psalms 56:2
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.

Luke 18:4
And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,

Luke 18:5
Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.

Luke 18:6
And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.

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Genesis 27:28
May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

Genesis 27:36
And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

Exodus 12:44
But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

Exodus 21:2
If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

Exodus 22:3
But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

Leviticus 25:44
But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

Matthew 18:25
And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

1 Corinthians 6:20
For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

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Exodus 1:11
So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 2:11
Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

Exodus 23:5
If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

Matthew 23:4
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

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Exodus 22:21
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

Exodus 22:23
If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

Job 24:9
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,

Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

Proverbs 28:8
He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

Ezekiel 45:9
This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

Micah 2:3
For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

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Deuteronomy 28:12
Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

Deuteronomy 28:43
The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:44
He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.

2 Kings 4:2
Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.

2 Kings 4:4
Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.

2 Kings 4:5
So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.

Psalms 37:21
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Proverbs 22:7
The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

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Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.

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Nehemiah 1:2
That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,

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Nehemiah 4:12
And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

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Nehemiah 5:14
Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:16
And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

Nehemiah 5:17
And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.

Nehemiah 5:18
Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

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Psalms 82:4
Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

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Job 5:15
But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

Job 5:16
So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

Psalms 140:12
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

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Deuteronomy 15:8
But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.

Deuteronomy 15:10
But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

Deuteronomy 15:11
For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.

Ezekiel 18:7
And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

Ezekiel 18:16
Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.

Luke 6:34
And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.

Luke 6:35
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

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Joel 3:3
And they have put the fate of my people to the decision of chance: giving a boy for the price of a loose woman and a girl for a drink of wine.

Joel 3:6
And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

Amos 2:6
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

Amos 8:4
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

Amos 8:6
Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

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Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

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Luke 12:22
And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.

1 Corinthians 7:33
But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

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Matthew 10:32
To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.

Luke 6:46
Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

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Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

Acts 7:26
And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?

1 Corinthians 6:6
But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.

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2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

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1 Thessalonians 4:11
And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

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1 Thessalonians 4:12
That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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