Nehemiah 5:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Still others said: “To pay the king’s tax we have borrowed money on our fields and vineyards.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:21

those of their descendants who were left in the land and whom the Israelites had not been able to destroy under the ban—these Solomon conscripted as forced laborers, as they are to this day.

Ezra 4:13

Now let it be known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls completed, they will no longer pay taxes, tributes, or tolls; eventually the throne will be harmed.

Ezra 4:20

Powerful kings once ruled in Jerusalem who controlled all West-of-Euphrates, and taxes, tributes, and tolls were paid to them.

Ezra 7:24

We also inform you that it is not permitted to impose taxes, tributes, or tolls on any priest, Levite, singer, gatekeeper, temple servant, or any other servant of that house of God.

Nehemiah 5:3

Others said: “We are forced to pawn our fields, our vineyards, and our houses, that we may have grain during the famine.”

Nehemiah 9:37

Its rich produce goes to the kings you set over us because of our sins, Who rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress!”

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Joshua 16:10

But they did not dispossess the Canaanites living in Gezer; they live within Ephraim to the present day, though they have been put to forced labor.