Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
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
Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
And I say, `Not good <FI>is<Fi> the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?
Cross References
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite …
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my …
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay …
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord’s people to transgress.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child …
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for …
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread …
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.