Nehemiah 5:5

Modern King James Version

Yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons like their sons. And, lo, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage, to be slaves, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage. And there is no power for our hand, 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 month.

Genesis 37:27

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him. For he is our brother, and our flesh. And his brothers listened.

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.

Proverbs 22:7

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

Isaiah 50:1

So says Jehovah, Where is your mother's bill of divorce, whom I have put away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother is put away for your sins.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Matthew 18:25

But as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he, and his wife and children, and all that he had, be sold, and payment be made.