Nehemiah 5:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Our flesh

Genesis 37:27

Isaiah 58:7

James 2:5

We

General references

Amos 8:6

Bible References

Our flesh

Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.

“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry
And bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the naked, to cover him;
And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

We

“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

‘If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord; and the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

But since he

did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.

General references

“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

“If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

“Others snatch the orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

So as to buy the helpless for money
And the needy for a pair of sandals,
And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”