Nehemiah 5:2 Cross References: For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get corn, that we may eat and live.

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Some were saying, "We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain to eat and live."

Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:19
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!"

Nehemiah 5:3
Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine."

Haggai 1:6
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through."

Chapter Outline

1. The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage
6. Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution
14. He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality

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We, our sons

Psalm 127:3-5
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. . . .

Psalm 128:2-4
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. . . .

Malachi 2:2
"If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, " says the LORD of Hosts, "I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.

we take up corn

Genesis 41:57
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

Genesis 42:2
"Look, " he added, "I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die."

Genesis 43:8
And Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die--neither we, nor you, nor our children.

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