Nehemiah 5:4

New International Version

Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:21

Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

Ezra 4:13

Furthermore, the king should know that if this city is built and its walls are restored, no more taxes, tribute or duty will be paid, and eventually the royal revenues will suffer.

Ezra 4:20

Jerusalem has had powerful kings ruling over the whole of Trans-Euphrates, and taxes, tribute and duty were paid to them.

Ezra 7:24

You are also to know that you have no authority to impose taxes, tribute or duty on any of the priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers, temple servants or other workers at this house of God.

Nehemiah 5:3

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Nehemiah 9:37

Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They 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 slave to the lender.

Joshua 16:10

They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.