Nehemiah 5:1
And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brothers the Jews,
Literal Standard 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 you lend money [to] My poor people [who are] with you, you are not as a usurer to him; you do not lay usury on him;
Deuteronomy 15:7When there is with you any poor of one of your brothers, in one of your cities, in your land which your God YHWH is giving to you, you do not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your needy brother;
Job 34:28To cause to come to Him || The cry of the poor, || And He hears the cry of the afflicted.
Malachi 2:13And you do this a second time, || Covering the altar of YHWH with tears, || With weeping and groaning, || Because there is no more turning to the present, || Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.
Acts 7:26On the succeeding day, also, he showed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers, why do you do injustice to one another?
James 5:4Behold, the reward of the workmen cries out, of those who in-gathered your fields, which has been fraudulently kept back by you, and the exclamations of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the 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 →