Nehemiah 13:11 Cross References
Nehemiah 13:11
11: I immediately confronted the leaders and demanded, "Why has the Temple of God been neglected?" Then I called all the Levites back again and restored them to their proper duties.
Nehemiah 10:39
- The people and the Levites must bring these offerings of grain, new wine, and olive oil to the Temple and place them in the sacred containers near the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers. "So we promise together not to neglect the Temple of our God."
Nehemiah 13:17
- So I confronted the leaders of Judah, "Why are you profaning the Sabbath in this evil way?
Nehemiah 13:25
- So I confronted them and called down curses on them. I beat some of them and pulled out their hair. I made them swear before God that they would not let their children intermarry with the pagan people of the land.
1 Samuel 2:17
- So the sin of these young men was very serious in the LORD's sight, for they treated the LORD's offerings with contempt.
Job 31:34
- Have I feared the crowd and its contempt, so that I refused to acknowledge my sin and would not go outside?
Proverbs 28:4
- To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them.
Malachi 3:8
- "Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, `What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?'"You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me.
- You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.
- Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!
- Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not shrivel before they are ripe," says the LORD Almighty.
Nehemiah 5:6
- When I heard their complaints, I was very angry.
- After thinking about the situation, I spoke out against these nobles and officials. I told them, "You are oppressing your own relatives by charging them interest when they borrow money!" Then I called a public meeting to deal with the problem.
- At the meeting I said to them, "The rest of us are doing all we can to redeem our Jewish relatives who have had to sell themselves to pagan foreigners, but you are selling them back into slavery again. How often must we redeem them?" And they had nothing to say in their defense.
- Then I pressed further, "What you are doing is not right! Should you not walk in the fear of our God in order to avoid being mocked by enemy nations?
- I myself, as well as my brothers and my workers, have been lending the people money and grain, but now let us stop this business of loans.