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Nehemiah Chapter 5

Nehemiah
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Nehemiah

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The chapter records the governor’s report that the people of Jerusalem have abandoned the law, stopped giving tithes, and have built idols. Nehemiah confronts them, urging repentance and restitution. The message is that sin must be confessed and corrected before restoration can occur.

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(1) And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
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(2) For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
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(3) Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
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(4) There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
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Nehemiah 9:37Deuteronomy 28:47Deuteronomy 28:48Joshua 16:10I Kings 9:21Ezra 4:13Ezra 4:20

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(5) Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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(6) And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
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Nehemiah 13:8Nehemiah 13:25Exodus 11:8Numbers 16:15Mark 3:5Ephesians 4:26

(7) Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
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(8) And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
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(9) Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
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(10) I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
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(11) Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
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(12) Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
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II Chronicles 28:14II Chronicles 28:15Ezra 10:12Matthew 19:21Matthew 19:22Luke 19:8Nehemiah 10:29Nehemiah 13:25II Kings 23:2II Kings 23:3II Chronicles 6:22II Chronicles 6:23

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(13) Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
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Matthew 10:14Acts 13:51Acts 18:6I Samuel 15:28I Kings 11:29I Kings 11:30I Kings 11:31Zechariah 5:3Zechariah 5:4Numbers 5:22Deuteronomy 27:14Deuteronomy 27:15

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(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.
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Nehemiah 2:1Nehemiah 13:6I Corinthians 9:4I Corinthians 9:5I Corinthians 9:6I Corinthians 9:7I Corinthians 9:8I Corinthians 9:9I Corinthians 9:10I Corinthians 9:11I Corinthians 9:12I Corinthians 9:13

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(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 not I, because of the fear of God.
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I Samuel 2:15I Samuel 2:16I Samuel 2:17I Samuel 8:15Proverbs 29:12Matthew 5:47II Corinthians 11:9II Corinthians 12:13Nehemiah 5:9Job 31:23Psalms 112:1Psalms 147:11

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Mark 2:22Leviticus 27:6Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19Numbers 7:25Numbers 7:31

(16) Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
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Luke 8:15Romans 2:7I Corinthians 15:58Galatians 6:9Numbers 16:15Acts 20:33Acts 20:34Acts 20:35I Thessalonians 2:5I Thessalonians 2:6II Corinthians 12:16II Corinthians 12:17

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(17) Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
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II Samuel 9:7II Samuel 9:13I Kings 18:19Isaiah 32:8Romans 12:13I Peter 4:9I Peter 4:10

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Exodus 18:21II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17Leviticus 23:38Exodus 18:25II Kings 1:10

(18) Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
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I Kings 4:22I Kings 4:23Nehemiah 5:14Nehemiah 5:15Psalms 37:21Psalms 37:26

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(19) Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
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Nehemiah 13:14Nehemiah 13:22Nehemiah 13:31Genesis 40:14Psalms 25:6Psalms 25:7Psalms 40:17Psalms 106:4Jeremiah 29:11Psalms 18:23Psalms 18:24Psalms 18:25

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