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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Neh 5:18 — Now [that] which was prepared [for me] daily [was] one ox [and] six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
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Now that
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1Ki 4:22,23 |
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one ox
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This was food sufficient for more than two hundred men. Bp. Pococke says that the bey of Tunis had daily twelve sheep, with fish and fowls, soups, oranges, eggs, onions, boiled rice, etc., etc. His nobles dined with him; after they had done, the servants sat down; and when they had finished, the poor took what was left. Here the bey's twelve sheep are equal to Nehemiah's one ox and six choice sheep; and probably the mode of living between the two was nearly alike. It is still the practice in the East to calculate the expenses of the table, not by the money paid, but by the provisions consumed by the guests. |
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required
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Neh 5:14,15 |
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because the bondage
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Psa 37:21,26 |
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1Ki 4:22 |
And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, |
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1Ki 4:23 |
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. |
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Neh 5:14 |
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. |
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Neh 5:15 |
But the former governors that [had been] before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God. |
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Psa 37:21 |
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. |
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Psa 37:26 |
[He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Nehemiah 5:18," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Neh/5/18.html>.
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