Nehemiah 5:2

New King James Version

For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Cross References

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My name,” Says the Lord of hosts, “I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not take it to heart.

Genesis 43:8

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

Genesis 42:2

And he said, “Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may live and not die.”

Genesis 41:57

So all countries came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all lands.

Deuteronomy 23:19

“You shall not charge interest to your brother—interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest.

2 Kings 4:1

A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:3

There were also some who said, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.”

Haggai 1:6

“You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

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 of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land may not be desolate.”