Nehemiah 5:15

Tree of Life Version

The earlier governors, those preceding me, placed heavy burdens on the people, and took bread and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their attendants also lorded over the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:9

Then I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good! Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, in order to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies?

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears Adonai? Who hears the voice of His servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the Name of Adonai and lean on his God.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth is iniquity atoned, and by the fear of Adonai one avoids evil.

2 Corinthians 11:9

When I was present with you and I was in need, I did not burden anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. In everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and I will continue to do so.

Matthew 5:47

And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than anyone else? Even the pagans do that, don’t they?

Job 31:23

For calamity from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty, I could do nothing.

2 Corinthians 12:13

For in what respect were you treated worse than the rest of Messiah’s communities—except that I myself did not burden you? Pardon me this injustice!

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants will be wicked.

Psalm 147:11

Adonai delights in those who revere Him, in those who trust in His lovingkindness.

Psalm 112:1

Halleluyah! Happy is the man who fears Adonai, who delights greatly in His mitzvot.

1 Samuel 8:15

He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage and give it to his officials and slaves.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘There is certainly no fear of God in this place, so they’ll kill me, because of my wife.’

Genesis 42:18

Then Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and you will live. I fear God.

Nehemiah 5:16

Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall, without even buying a field. All my attendants were gathered there for the work.

Jeremiah 32:9

So I bought the field that was in Anathoth from the son of my uncle Hanamel, and weighed him the money—seventeen shekels of silver.

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves rule over us. There is no one to deliver us from their hand.