Nehemiah 5:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

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  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he bears long with them?
  • Acts 7:26 : 26 And the next day he showed himself to them as they were quarreling, and would have set them at peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?
  • 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded? 8 No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows;
  • Exod 22:25-27 : 25 If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest. 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
  • Lev 25:35-37 : 35 And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he is a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you. 36 Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. 37 You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.
  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother. 8 But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely give him sufficient for his need, in what he wants. 9 Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you. 10 You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to. 11 For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, saying, you shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.
  • Job 31:38-39 : 38 If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain; 39 If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;
  • Job 34:28 : 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to Him, and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 5:2-8
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    80%

    2For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live.

    3Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine.

    4There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

    6And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

    7Then I consulted with myself and rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, You are charging interest, each one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them.

    8And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.

  • Ezra 3:12-13
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    12But many of the priests and Levites and heads of the fathers' houses, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy,

    13So that the people could not distinguish the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.

  • Neh 4:12-14
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    12And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, From whatever place you turn, they will be upon us.

    13Therefore I set men in the lowest parts behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people according to their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

    14And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Do not be afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

  • 2 Chr 32:18
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    18Then they cried out with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might capture the city.

  • Neh 4:1
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    1But it happened that when Sanballat heard we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

  • Neh 8:1
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    1And all the people gathered themselves together as one person in the street before the Water Gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

  • Ezra 10:1-2
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    1Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and laying himself down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

    2And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have sinned against our God and have taken foreign wives from the peoples of the land, yet now there is hope for Israel in this matter.

  • Esth 9:2
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    2The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who sought their harm: and no one could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

  • Ezra 10:13-14
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    13But there are many people, and it is a time of heavy rain, and we are not able to stand outside. Nor is this a task that can be accomplished in a day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

    14Let our leaders of the entire assembly stand, and let all those in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God concerning this matter is turned away from us.

  • Lam 5:11
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    11They ravished the women in Zion, the young women in the cities of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 29:8-9
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    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

    9For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Esth 8:11
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    11By these letters, the king granted the Jews in every city the right to gather and protect themselves, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, along with their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions.

  • Jer 9:18
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    18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

  • Neh 13:27
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    27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?

  • 2 Chr 28:11
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    11Now hear me therefore, and return the captives, whom you have taken captive of your brethren, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

  • Esth 9:5
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    5Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they desired to those who hated them.

  • Neh 4:7
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    7But it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were repaired, and the breaches began to be stopped, they were very angry,

  • Neh 5:11
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    11Restore to them, I pray you, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil, that you are charging them.

  • Num 14:1
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    1And all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried; and the people wept that night.

  • Ezra 3:1
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    1And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one person to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 21:15
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    15And the people felt sorry for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

  • Acts 6:1
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    1In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a complaint by the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.

  • Neh 12:43
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    43On that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

  • Ezra 10:10
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    10And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, You have transgressed and have taken foreign wives, adding to the guilt of Israel.

  • Job 35:9
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    9Because of the multitude of oppressions, they make the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the power of the mighty.

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

  • Judg 21:2
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    2And the people came to the house of God, and stayed there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept bitterly;

  • Zeph 1:10
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    10And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1He also cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Bring near those who have charge over the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Ezra 4:1
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    1Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to the LORD God of Israel,

  • Neh 13:24-25
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    24and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of each people.

    25So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.

  • Esth 8:17
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    17And in every province and every city, wherever the king's command and his decree came, the Jews had joy, gladness, a feast, and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

  • Judg 21:22
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    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

  • Dan 3:8
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    8At that time certain Chaldeans came forward and accused the Jews.

  • 2 Chr 15:5
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    5And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great troubles were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.