Nehemiah 5:15 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁵ And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it, (though at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,)

Más versiones

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ But the former governors lived at the expense of the people and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver [a large monthly official salary]; yes, even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not so because of my [reverent] fear of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The earlier governors who had come before me laid heavy burdens on the people. They took food and wine from them as well as forty shekels of silver. Even their servants oppressed the people. But because I was God-fearing, I didn’t behave in this way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ But the former governors, the ones who had been before me, were a burden to the people, and they took from them bread and wine, and forty shekels of money each day. And their officials also oppressed the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:15 Referencias Cruzadas

Nehemiah 5:9

4 And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors.

Isaiah 50:10

Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

Proverbs 16:6

3 Just lips are the delight of kings: he that speaketh right things shall be loved.

2 Corinthians 11:9

8 Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.

Matthew 5:47

And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.

Job 31:23

8 Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.

2 Corinthians 12:13

Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.

Proverbs 29:12

9 A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer.

Psalm 147:11

8 He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall blow, and the waters shall run.

Psalm 112:1

his heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look over his enemies.

1 Samuel 8:15

0 And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and tight our battles for us.

Genesis 20:11

1 Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

Genesis 42:18

9 If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison: and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto your houses.

Nehemiah 5:16

Sanaballat and Gossem Rent to me, saying: Come, and let us make a league together in the villages, in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

Jeremiah 32:9

7 Alas, alas, alas, 0 Lord God, behold thou hast made heaven and earth by thy great power, and thy stretched out arm: no word shall be hard to thee:

Lamentations 5:8

6 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.