Nehemiah 5:5

The Scriptures 2009

“And now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. And see, we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been subjected, and there is no power in our hands, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

And Laḇan said to him, “You are indeed my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him for a new moon.

Genesis 37:27

Come and let us sell him to the Yishma‛ĕlites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers listened.

2 Kings 4:1

And 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 יהוה. And the lender has come to take my two sons to be his slaves.”

Proverbs 22:7

The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

Isaiah 58:7

“Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Matthew 18:25

but as he was unable to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.