Nehemiah 5:2

New Century Version

Some of them were saying, “We have many sons and daughters in our families. To eat and stay alive, we need grain.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:57

And all the people in that part of the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the hunger was terrible everywhere in that part of the world.

Genesis 42:2

I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us to eat, so that we will live and not die.”

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to his father Jacob, “Send Benjamin with me, and we will go at once so that we, you, and our children may live and not die.

Genesis 47:19

Surely both we and our land will die here in front of you. Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be slaves to the king, together with our land. Give us seed to plant so that we will live and not die, and the land will not become a desert.”

2 Kings 4:1

The wife of a man from the groups of prophets said to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead. You know he honored the Lord. But now the man he owes money to is coming to take my two boys as his slaves!”

Nehemiah 5:3

Others were saying, “We are borrowing money against our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain because there is not much food.”

Haggai 1:6

You have planted much, but you harvest little. You eat, but you do not become full. You drink, but you are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but you are not warm enough. You earn money, but then you lose it all as if you had put it into a purse full of holes.”

Malachi 2:2

Listen to me. Pay attention to what I say. Honor my name,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “If you don’t, I will send a curse on you and on your blessings. I have already cursed them, because you don’t pay attention to what I say.

Deuteronomy 23:19

If you loan your fellow Israelites money or food or anything else, don’t make them pay back more than you loaned them.