Nehemiah 5:9 Cross References - Leeser

⁹ Then said I, The thing is not good which ye are doing: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the taunting of the nations, our enemies?

⁷ And there arose a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle, and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. ⁸ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are near relatives.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me for the sake of my wife.

¹⁸ And Joseph said unto them on the third day, This do, and live; I fear God.

³⁶ Thou shalt not take of him any usury or increase; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God: that thy brother may live with thee.

²⁴ No, my sons; for the report that I hear is not good, which the Lord’s people spread abroad.

¹⁴ Nevertheless, because thou hast given great cause to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme through this thing, the child also that hath been born unto thee shall surely die.

^{4 (3:36)} Hear, O our God! how we are become a scorn; and bring their reproach back upon their own head, and give them up for prey in the land of captivity.

¹⁵ But the former governors that had been before me had made it heavy for the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver: yea, even their young men ruled over the people; but I myself did not act so, because of the fear of God.

²⁹ The man of violence misleadeth his neighbor, and maketh him go on a way which is not good.

²⁶ To punish the just with a fine even is not good, nor to strike the noble-hearted for their equity.

⁵ It is not good to favor the person of the wicked, to wrest the cause of the righteous in judgment.

² Also in the want of knowledge in the soul there is nothing good; and he that hasteneth with his feet misseth the right path.

²³ These things also are for the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

²⁰ And when they were come unto the nations, whither they were gone, they profaned my holy name; because they said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and out of his land are they gone forth.