Nehemiah 5:18 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:18

18: The provisions required at my expense for each day were one ox, six fat sheep, and a large number of domestic fowl. And every ten days we needed a large supply of all kinds of wine. Yet I refused to claim the governor's food allowance because the people were already having a difficult time.

1 Kings 4:22

  1. The daily food requirements for Solomon's palace were 150 bushels of choice flour and 300 bushels of meal,
  2. ten oxen from the fattening pens, twenty pasture-fed cattle, one hundred sheep or goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and choice fowl.

Psalms 37:21

  1. The wicked borrow and never repay, but the godly are generous givers.

Psalms 37:26

  1. The godly always give generous loans to others, and their children are a blessing.

Nehemiah 5:14

  1. I would like to mention that for the entire twelve years that I was governor of Judah--from the twentieth until the thirty-second year of the reign of King Artaxerxes--neither I nor my officials drew on our official food allowance.
  2. This was quite a contrast to the former governors who had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily ration of food and wine, besides a pound of silver. Even their assistants took advantage of the people. But because of my fear of God, I did not act that way.
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