Nehemiah 5:7-9
"After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, 'Each of you is exacting usury from his brother.' So I called a great assembly against them."
"And I said to them, 'According to our ability we have redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?' Then they were silenced and found nothing to say."
"Then I said, 'What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?'"
(Nehemiah is finding more and more opposition as he and his servants and faithful Jews continue to build the wall of Jerusalem. Here, there are nobles and rulers that are taking other Jews into slavery, and others are being heavily taxed during a famine. But Nehemiah is ever-faithful to God through all this.)
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Verses of the Day, Book 3
Non-FictionAn installment of what is quickly becoming a series, this is book 3 of me putting down verses from the Bible's various passages as I read through different books of the Bible.
