Nehemiah 5:1
And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,
Young's Literal Translation
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 22:25'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;
Deuteronomy 15:7'When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;
Job 34:28To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
Malachi 2:13And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.
Acts 7:26'On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?
James 5:4lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you — doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
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 →