Nehemiah 5:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

Cross References

Genesis 41:57

And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

Genesis 42:2

And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

Genesis 47:19

Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Nehemiah 5:3

And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.

Haggai 1:6

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have: