Nehemiah 5:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then others said, “We had to borrow money from those in power to pay the government tax on our fields and vineyards.

Cross References

Ezra 4:13

You should also know that if the walls are completed and the city is rebuilt, the Jews won't pay any kind of taxes, and there will be less money in your treasury.

Ezra 4:20

And powerful kings have ruled Western Province from Jerusalem and have collected all kinds of taxes.

Ezra 7:24

We want you to know that no priests, Levites, musicians, guards, temple servants, or any other temple workers will have to pay any kind of taxes.

Nehemiah 5:3

Others said, “During the famine we even had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and homes to them in order to buy grain.”

Nehemiah 9:37

Its plentiful harvest is taken by kings you placed over us because of our sins. Our suffering is unbearable, because they do as they wish to us and our livestock.

Proverbs 22:7

The poor are ruled by the rich, and those who borrow are slaves of moneylenders.

Joshua 16:10

Ephraim could not force the Canaanites out of Gezer, so there are still some Canaanites who live there among the Israelites. But now these Canaanites have to work as slaves for the Israelites.