Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 22:25If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
Deuteronomy 15:7If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brothers, within any of thy gates in thy land which LORD thy God gives thee, thou shall not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother,
Job 34:28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted.
Malachi 2:13And this again ye do: Ye cover the altar of LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.
Acts 7:26And on the next day he was seen by them as they fought, and he was reconciling them for peace, having said, Men, ye are brothers. Why is it that ye wrong each other?
James 5:4Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 5:1
How bravely Nehemiah, as a wise and faithful governor, stood upon his guard against the attacks of enemies abroad, we read in the foregoing chapter. Here we have him no less bold and active to redress grievances at home, and, having kept them from being destroyed by their enemies, to keep them from destroying one another. Here is, I. The complaint which the poor made to him of the great hardships which the rich (of whom they were forced to borrow money) put upon them, ver. 1-5 . II. The effectual course which… Read the whole commentary →