Nehemiah 5:4

Good News Translation

Still others said, “We had to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards.

Cross References

Ezra 4:13

Your Majesty, if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, the people will stop paying taxes, and your royal revenues will decrease.

Ezra 4:20

Powerful kings have reigned there and have ruled over the entire province of West-of-Euphrates, collecting taxes and revenue.

Ezra 7:24

You are forbidden to collect any taxes from the priests, Levites, musicians, guards, workers, or anyone else connected with this Temple.

Nehemiah 5:3

Others said, “We have had to mortgage our fields and vineyards and houses to get enough grain to keep us from starving.”

Nehemiah 9:37

What the land produces goes to the kings that you put over us because we sinned. They do as they please with us and our livestock, and we are in deep distress!”

Proverbs 22:7

Poor people are slaves of the rich. Borrow money and you are the lender's slave.

Joshua 16:10

But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived among the Ephraimites to this day, but they have been forced to work as slaves.