Nehemiah 5:1

Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

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Genesis 4:10
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 3:9
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Job 24:12
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Psalms 43:2
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 55:2
Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

Psalms 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Psalms 56:2
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

Luke 18:6
The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

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Genesis 27:28
God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:36
He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

Exodus 12:44
but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

Exodus 21:2
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Exodus 22:3
If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Leviticus 25:42
For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

Leviticus 25:44
“ ‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

Matthew 18:25
But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

1 Corinthians 6:20
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 2:11
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

Lamentations 5:13
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

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Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Proverbs 6:1
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Ezekiel 45:9
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Enough you, princes of Israel! Remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness! Stop dispossessing my people!” says the Lord Yahweh.

Micah 2:3
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

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Deuteronomy 28:12
Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:44
He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

2 Kings 4:2
Elisha said to her, “What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She said, “Your servant has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.”

2 Kings 4:3
Then he said, “Go, borrow empty containers from all your neighbors. Don’t borrow just a few containers.

2 Kings 4:4
Go in and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour oil into all those containers; and set aside those which are full.”

2 Kings 4:5
So she went from him, and shut the door on herself and on her sons. They brought the containers to her, and she poured oil.

Psalms 37:21
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

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Nehemiah 1:2
Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

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Nehemiah 4:12
When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

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Nehemiah 5:14
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:16
Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.

Nehemiah 5:17
Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.

Nehemiah 5:18
Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.

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Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”

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Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:16
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Psalms 140:12
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

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Deuteronomy 15:8
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

Deuteronomy 15:10
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18:16
hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

Luke 6:34
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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Joel 3:3
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Joel 3:6
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”

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Malachi 3:9
You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

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Luke 12:22
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

1 Corinthians 7:33
but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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Matthew 10:32
Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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Malachi 2:10
Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Acts 7:26
“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

1 Corinthians 6:6
But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

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2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

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1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,

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1 Thessalonians 4:12
that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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