Nehemiah 5:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:57

Moreover, all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine became severe throughout the world.

Genesis 42:2

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

Genesis 43:8

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and let us be on our way, so that we may live and not die—you and we and also our little ones.

Genesis 47:19

Shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. We with our land will become slaves to Pharaoh; just give us seed, so that we may live and not die and that the land may not become desolate.”

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:3

There were also those who said, “We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine.”

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.

Deuteronomy 23:19

“You shall not charge interest on loans to another Israelite, interest on money, interest on provisions, interest on anything that is lent.