Nehemiah 5:15
For the former gouernours that were before me, had bene chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides fourtie shekels of siluer: yea, and their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.
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1 Samuel 2:15Yea, before they burnt the fat, the priests boy came and saide to the man that offered, Giue me flesh to rost for the priest: for he wil not haue sodden flesh of thee, but rawe.
Nehemiah 5:9I said also, That which ye do, is not good. Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, for the reproche of the heathen our enemies?
Psalms 112:1Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man, that feareth the Lord, and deliteth greatly in his commandements.
Proverbs 16:6By mercy and trueth iniquitie shalbe forgiuen, and by the feare of the Lord they depart from euill.
Ecclesiastes 12:13Let vs heare the end of all: feare God and keepe his commandements: for this is the whole duetie of man.
Lamentations 5:8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 5:15-19
The Generosity of Nehemiah. ( b. c. 445.) 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. 15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did… Read the whole commentary →