Nehemiah 5:9
7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
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?
10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
- ASV
- 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?
- DARBY
- And I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, so as not to be the reproach of the nations our enemies?
- BLB
- And I said, “The thing that you⁺ are doing [is] not good. Is [it] not in the fear of our God [that] you⁺ should walk, because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
- ÅB
- Så sa jeg: Det er ikke rett det dere gjør; burde dere ikke vandre i frykt for vår Gud, så ikke hedningene, våre fiender, skal få grunn til å håne oss?
- OTB
- Så fortsatte jeg, “Det dere gjør er ikke rett. Burde dere ikke vandre i frykt for vår Gud for å unngå vanæren fra våre hedenske fiender?
- B1930
- Så sa jeg: Det er ikke rett det I gjør; burde I ikke vandre i frykt for vår Gud, så ikke hedningene, våre fiender, skal få grunn til å håne oss?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 25:36
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Read in contextProverbs 18:5
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Read in contextRomans 2:24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Read in context1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:14
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
Read in contextTitus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Read in contextActs 9:31
Then had the churches rest throughout all Judæa and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Read in contextGenesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
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