Nehemiah 5:5

Easy To Read Version

\{Look at those rich people!\} We are as good as they are. Our sons are as good as their sons. But we will have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves. Some of us have already had to sell our daughters as slaves! There is nothing we can do! We already lost our fields and vineyards! Other people own them now!”

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

Then Laban said, “This is wonderful! You are from my own family.” So Jacob stayed with Laban for a month.

Genesis 37:27

We will profit more if we sell him to these traders. Then we will not be guilty of killing our own brother.” The other brothers agreed.

2 Kings 4:1

A man from the group of prophets [22] had a wife. {This man died.} His wife cried out to Elisha, “My husband was like a servant to you. Now my husband is dead! You know he honored the Lord. But he owed money to a man. And now that man is coming to take my two boys and make them his slaves!”

Proverbs 22:7

Poor people are slaves to rich people. The person who borrows is a servant to the person who lends.

Isaiah 50:1

The Lord says,\par “\{People of Israel, you say that I divorced\par your mother, Jerusalem.\}\par But where is the legal paper\par that proves I divorced her?\par My children, did I owe money to someone?\par Did I sell you to pay a debt?\par No! You were sold\par because of the bad things you did.\par Your mother (Jerusalem) was sent away\par because of the bad things you did.\par

Isaiah 58:7

I want you to share your food with the hungry people. I want you to find poor people that don’t have homes, and I want you to bring them into your own homes. When you see a man that has no clothes—give him your clothes! Don’t hide \{from helping those people\}; they are just like you.”

Matthew 18:25

The servant was not able to pay the money to his master, the king. So the master ordered that everything the servant owned should be sold, even the servant’s wife and children. The money would be used to pay the king what the servant owed.