Nehemiah 5:1
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
Majority Standard Bible
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 one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
Deuteronomy 15:7If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.
Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
Malachi 2:13And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.
Acts 7:26The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he urged them to make peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached 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 →