Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

Nehemiah 5 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Usury Abolished

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 -

Now there was a great outcry of the [poorer] people and their wives against their Jewish brothers [to whom they were deeply in debt].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:2 - For there were some who were saying, “We, along with our sons and our daughters, are many; therefore allow us to get grain, so that we may eat and survive.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - There were others who were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to buy grain because of the famine.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:4 - There were also others who were saying, “We have borrowed money on our fields and vineyards for the [Persian] king’s [heavy] tax.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - “Now our flesh (skin) is the same as that of our brothers (relatives), and our children are like their children, yet here we are forcing (selling) our sons and our daughters to be slaves; and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and [fn]we are powerless [to redeem them] because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:6 -

Then I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words [of accusation].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - I thought it over and then challenged the nobles and the rulers. I said to them, “You are exacting usury (excessive interest) from your own brother (relative).” So I held a great assembly to confront them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - I said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed (purchased back) our Jewish brothers who were sold to the [Gentile] nations; now would you even sell your brothers, that they might be sold to us?” Then they were silent and could not find a [single] word to say.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:9 - So I said, “What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunting by the [pagan] nations, our enemies?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:10 - “And likewise I, my brothers, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop [charging] this interest.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - “Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, and also a hundredth part of the money, the grain, the new wine, and the oil that you are lending them.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - Then they said, “We will give it back and not require anything from them. We will do exactly as you say.” Then I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would act in accordance with this promise.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - I also [fn]shook out the [fn]front of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not keep this promise; like this may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amen!” And they praised the LORD. Then the people acted in accordance with this promise.

Nehemiah’s Example

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:14 -

Moreover, from the day that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my relatives have eaten the governor’s food allowance.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former governors who were [in office] before me put heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them in addition to forty shekels of silver [as an excessive monthly salary]; even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not do so because of the [reverent] fear of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - I also applied myself to the work on this wall; we did not buy any land, and all my servants were gathered together there for the work.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17 - Moreover, there were at my table a hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - Now the following were prepared for each day: one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls (poultry) were prepared for me; and in intervals of ten days all sorts of wine was provided in abundance. Yet for all this, I did not demand the governor’s food allowance, because the servitude was heavy on this people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:19 - Remember me, O my God, for good, according to all I have done for this people.
See the AMP Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
AMP Footnotes
Lit our hands are.
The folds of a robe over the chest formed a place where objects could be carried and protected, so Nehemiah’s gesture was a vivid illustration of the divine punishment he was invoking upon violators.
Lit bosom.
AMP

Amplified Bible Copyright (c) 2015 by

The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved.

For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.