Nehemiah 5:12

10 I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

11 Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”

“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.

13 I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of His house and possession every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

14 Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.
KJV
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
WEB
Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
ASV
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
DARBY
And they said, We will restore [them], and will require nothing of them; so will we do, as thou hast said. And I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
BLB
And they said, “We will restore [it], and from them will require nothing. Thus we will do as you say.” And I called the priests, and caused them to swear to do according to this word.
ÅB
Da sa de: Vi vil gi det tilbake og ikke kreve noe av dem; vi vil gjøre som du sier. Og etter at jeg hadde tilkalt prestene, lot jeg dem sverge på at de ville gjøre som de hadde sagt.
OTB
De svarte, “Vi vil gi det tilbake og vil ikke kreve noe mer fra dem; vi vil gjøre som du sier.” Så kalte jeg sammen prestene og fikk adelsmennene og embetsmennene til å avlegge en ed om å gjøre det de hadde lovet.
B1930
Da sa de: Vi vil gi det tilbake og ikke kreve noget av dem; vi vil gjøre som du sier. Og efterat jeg hadde tilkalt prestene, lot jeg dem sverge på at de vilde gjøre som de hadde sagt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ezra 10:5

    So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.

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  • Jeremiah 34:8–10

    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD

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  • Nehemiah 10:29

    hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.

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  • Ezra 10:12

    And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!

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  • 2 Chronicles 6:22–23

    When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

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  • 2 Chronicles 15:13–14

    And whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

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  • Nehemiah 10:31

    When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

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  • 2 Chronicles 28:14–15

    So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.

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