Nehemiah 5:15 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ But the former governors lived at the expense of the people and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver [a large monthly official salary]; yes, even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not so because of my [reverent] fear of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The earlier governors who had come before me laid heavy burdens on the people. They took food and wine from them as well as forty shekels of silver. Even their servants oppressed the people. But because I was God-fearing, I didn’t behave in this way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ But the former governors, the ones who had been before me, were a burden to the people, and they took from them bread and wine, and forty shekels of money each day. And their officials also oppressed the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:15 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 20:11

Avraham said, *Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

Genesis 42:18

Yosef said to them the third day, *Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Nehemiah 5:16

Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.

Nehemiah 5:9

Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Job 31:23

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

Psalm 112:1

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his mitzvot.

Psalm 147:11

The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you who fears the LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely on his God.

Jeremiah 32:9

I bought the field that was in `Anatot of Chanam'el my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

Lamentations 5:8

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Matthew 5:47

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

2 Corinthians 11:9

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

2 Corinthians 12:13

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

1 Samuel 8:15

He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.