Nehemiah 5:1
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Updated King James Version
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And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
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Exodus 22:25If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shall you lay upon him interest.
Deuteronomy 15:7If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden yours heart, nor shut yours hand from your poor brother:
Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.
Malachi 2:13And this have all of you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand.
Acts 7:26And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them to reconcile again, saying, Sirs, all of you are brethren; why do all of you wrong one to another?
James 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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 →