Nehemiah 5:1
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Context
This verse from Nehemiah Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. Economic distress erupts within the community: poor families complain that they mortgage fields, vineyards, and children to pay Persian taxes and buy food while wealthy nobles charge interest. Nehemiah rebukes the nobles publicly, makes them swear to return pledged property …
Other Translations
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Cross References
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant …
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with …
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, …
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the …
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, …
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall …