Nehemiah 5:5

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.

Genesis 37:27

Come, and let's sell him to the Yishme`elim, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.* His brothers listened to him.

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

Isaiah 58:7

Isn't it to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Matthew 18:25

But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.