Nehemiah 5:7

After mastering his emotions, Nehemiah confronts the nobles for charging interest on their brothers and calls a great assembly. He deals with sin openly and deliberately.

Cross-references · 21

• Lev 25:36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
• Deut 23:19–20Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
• Exod 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
• Ps 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
• Ezek 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
• Deut 15:2–3This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
• 2 Chr 19:6–7Then he said to the judges, “Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment.
• Deut 24:10–13When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
• Lev 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
• 2 Chr 28:9–13But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
• Prov 27:5Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
• 1 Tim 5:20But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
• 2 Cor 5:16So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
• Ps 82:1–4A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
• Titus 2:15Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
• Matt 18:17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
• Gal 2:11When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.
• Ps 27:8My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
• Ps 4:4Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
• Ps 15:1A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?
• Ezek 45:9For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

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