Nehemiah 5:5

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our kindred, our children as their children: and, lo, 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 redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him for a period of a month.

Genesis 37:27

Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be on him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers were content.

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.

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Isaiah 50:1

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

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to distribute 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 do not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Matthew 18:25

But seeing that he was not able to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.