Nehemiah 5:12

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Then the rich people and the officials said, “We will give it back and not demand anything more from them. Nehemiah, we will do as you say.” Then I called the priests. I made the rich people and the officials promise to God that they would do what they said.

Cross References

Ezra 10:5

So Ezra got up. He made the leading priests, the Levites, and all the Israelites promise to do what he said.

Luke 19:8

Zacchaeus said to the Lord, “I want to do good. I will give half of my money to the poor. If I have cheated anyone, I will pay them back four times more.”

Matthew 26:63

But Jesus said nothing. Again the high priest said to Jesus, “You are now under oath. I command you by the power of the living God to tell us the truth. Tell us, are you the Messiah, the Son of God?”

Nehemiah 13:25

So I told the men that they were wrong. I said bad things to them. I hit some of them, and I pulled out their hair. I forced them to make a promise in God’s name. I said to them, “You must not marry the daughters of these foreigners. Don’t let their daughters marry your sons, and don’t let your daughters marry the sons of these foreigners.

Nehemiah 10:31

“We promise not to work on the Sabbath day. If the people living around us bring grain or other things to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy them on that special day or on any other festival. Every seventh year, we will not plant or work the land. And every seventh year, we will cancel every debt that other people owe to us.

Ezra 10:12

Then the whole group who met together answered Ezra. They shouted, “Ezra, you are right! We must do what you say.

Nehemiah 5:11

You must give their fields, vineyards, olive fields, and houses back to them, right now! And you must give back the interest you charged them. You charged them one percent for the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you loaned them.”

Nehemiah 10:30

“We promise not to let our daughters marry the people living around us. And we promise not to let our sons marry their daughters.