I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury. Sermons
I. THE POOR. 1. Numbers tend to poverty. "We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live" (ver. 2). 2. Borrowing tends to poverty. "We have mortgaged our lands" (ver. 3). 3. Taxation tends to poverty. "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute" (ver. 4). 4. Poverty may sometimes have cause for protest against injustice. 5. Poverty is experienced by the people of God who are engaged in holy toils. II. THE RICH. 1. The rich must not take undue advantage of calamitous circumstances. "Because of the dearth" (ver. 3). 2. The rich must not be inconsiderate. "Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren" (ver. 5). 3. The rich must not be cruel. "Our daughters are brought unto bondage" (ver. 5). 4. The rich must not violate the law of God. "Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God?" (ver. 9). III. THE REBUKE. 1. Angry. "And I was very angry." 2. Reflective. "I consulted with myself" (ver. 7). 3. Impartial. "The nobles and the rulers." 4. Sustained. "And I set a great assembly against them." 5. Argumentative (ver. 8). 6. Unanswerable. "They held their peace, and found nothing to answer." 7. Successful. "We will restore." - E.
Let us leave off this usury. He did not stand on a pedestal and look down on them with scorn and contempt; he rather placed himself alongside of the offenders, that he might lift them to a higher level. Let us learn .from this beautiful example how best to rebuke and restore an erring brother or sister.(W. P. Lockhart.) People ArtaxerxesPlaces JerusalemTopics Brethren, Brothers, Corn, Exact, Exacting, Exaction, Grain, Interest, Leave, Lend, Lending, Lent, Likewise, Money, Moreover, Please, Servants, Silver, Stop, Taking, UsuryOutline 1. The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage6. Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution 14. He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality Dictionary of Bible Themes Nehemiah 5:1-12 4456 grain Library An Ancient Nonconformist'... So did not I, because of the fear of God.'--Neh. v. 15. I do not suppose that the ordinary Bible-reader knows very much about Nehemiah. He is one of the neglected great men of Scripture. He was no prophet, he had no glowing words, he had no lofty visions, he had no special commission, he did not live in the heroic age. There was a certain harshness and dryness; a tendency towards what, when it was more fully developed, became Pharisaism, in the man, which somewhat covers the essential nobleness … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Youthful Confessors The Last Days of the Old Eastern World Influences that Gave Rise to the Priestly Laws and Histories Ezra-Nehemiah Links Nehemiah 5:10 NIVNehemiah 5:10 NLT Nehemiah 5:10 ESV Nehemiah 5:10 NASB Nehemiah 5:10 KJV Nehemiah 5:10 Bible Apps Nehemiah 5:10 Parallel Nehemiah 5:10 Biblia Paralela Nehemiah 5:10 Chinese Bible Nehemiah 5:10 French Bible Nehemiah 5:10 German Bible Nehemiah 5:10 Commentaries Bible Hub |