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Nehemiah 5

Neh. 5:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And there was a great cryp of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

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Isa. 5:7• ⁷For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry. (Isa. 5:7)

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1-5: The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage.

6-13: Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution.

14-19: He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality.

a great cry.

Ex. 3:7• ⁷And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. (Ex. 3:7)

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Ex. 22:25‑27• ²⁵--If thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest.
²⁶--If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;
²⁷for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin: on what shall he lie down? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. (Ex. 22:25‑27)

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Job 31:38‑39• ³⁸If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners: (Job 31:38‑39)

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Job 34:28• ²⁸So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. (Job 34:28)

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Isa. 5:7• ⁷For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry. (Isa. 5:7)

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Luke 18:7• ⁷And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them? (Luke 18:7)

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. (James 5:4)

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Lev. 25:35‑37• ³⁵And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, be he stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.
³⁶Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.
³⁷Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. (Lev. 25:35‑37)

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Deut. 15:7‑11• ⁷If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need;
⁸but thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto him, and shalt certainly lend him on pledge what is sufficient for his need, in that which he lacketh.
⁹Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.
¹⁰Thou shalt bountifully give unto him, and thy heart shall not be evil-disposed when thou givest unto him; because for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all the business of thy hand.
¹¹For the needy shall never cease from within the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land. (Deut. 15:7‑11)

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Acts 7:26• ²⁶And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, *Ye* are brethren, why do ye wrong one another? (Acts 7:26)

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1 Cor. 6:6‑8• ⁶But brother prosecutes his suit with brother, and that before unbelievers.
⁷Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?
⁸But *ye* do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren. (1 Cor. 6:6‑8)

• When Satan fails with an aggressive frontal attack, he adopts a more subtle and deceitful manner, and nothing seems more effective than sowing discord among the saints of God. (“Problems Within - Neh. 5:1-13” by N. Simon)

• If we are occupied in dealing with evil from without, we cannot afford to neglect our own moral condition or the condition of the assembly....Conflict characterizes chapter 4, and now in chapter 5 the lesson must be learned that the builders and warriors must have on the breastplate of righteousness if they are to resist successfully the foe's attacks. (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 5” by E. Dennett)

• "The people and... their wives" are evidently the poor, while "their brethren the Jews" are the rich. And division had come in through oppression by the latter, taking occasion through the poverty of the former to enrich themselves. (Compare Jas. 5, and also 1 Cor. 11:17-22.) (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 5” by E. Dennett)

• So now "the Jews" were dealing with the people as if they were not their brethren, in utter forgetfulness of the common relationship in which they stood before God, and so treating them as if they were aliens and heathen. The same evils reappear in varying forms in every age, and are especially noticed in the epistle of James. (See chapter 1:9, 10; chapters 2 and 5.) (“Exposition on Nehemiah: Nehemiah 5” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.