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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 the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but 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 the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; (Ex. 3:7)

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Ex. 22:25‑27• ²⁵If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
²⁶If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
²⁷For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? 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 against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: (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 the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. (Isa. 5:7)

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Luke 18:7• ⁷And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? (Luke 18:7)

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James 5:4• ⁴Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which 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 be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
³⁶Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
³⁷Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. (Lev. 25:35‑37)

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Deut. 15:7‑11• ⁷If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
⁸But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
⁹Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked 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 unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
¹⁰Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
¹¹For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide 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 the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? (Acts 7:26)

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1 Cor. 6:6‑8• ⁶But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
⁷Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
⁸Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that 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.