Nehemiah 5:4

Revised Standard Version

And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax upon our fields and our vineyards.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:21

their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to destroy utterly—these Solomon made a forced levy of slaves, and so they are to this day.

Ezra 4:13

Now be it known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.

Ezra 4:20

And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.

Ezra 7:24

We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll upon any one of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

Nehemiah 5:3

There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

Nehemiah 9:37

And its rich yield goes to the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins; they have power also over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.”

Proverbs 22:7

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

Joshua 16:10

However they did not drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: so the Canaanites have dwelt in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have become slaves to do forced labor.