Nehemiah 5:2

Modern King James Version

For certain ones said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain for them, so that we may eat and live.

Cross References

Genesis 41:57

And all the earth came into Egypt to buy, to Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

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, so that we may live and not die.

Genesis 43:8

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

Genesis 47:19

Why should 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 for Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land be not desolate.

2 Kings 4:1

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead. And you know that your servant feared Jehovah. And the lender has come to take my two children to himself for slaves.

Nehemiah 5:3

Some also said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses. Let us 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 dress, but no one is warm; and he who hires out himself hires himself for a bag full of holes.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

You shall not lend for interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything that is loaned on interest.