Nehemiah 5:2

Lighthouse Bible 2006

For there were some that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we must buy grain for them, that we may eat, and live.

Cross References

Genesis 41:57

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain; because the famine was so severe in all lands.

Genesis 42:2

And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.

Genesis 43:8

And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

Genesis 47:19

Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

2 Kings 4:1

Now there cried out 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 has come to take to himself my two sons to be slaves.

Nehemiah 5:3

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

You shall not lend upon interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest: