Nehemia 5:14

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Pula sejak aku diangkat sebagai bupati di tanah Yehuda, yakni dari tahun kedua puluh sampai tahun ketiga puluh dua pemerintahan Artahsasta jadi dua belas tahun lamanya, aku dan saudara-saudaraku tidak pernah mengambil pembagian yang menjadi hak bupati.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pula sejak aku diangkat sebagai bupati di tanah Yehuda, yakni dari tahun kedua puluh sampai tahun ketiga puluh dua pemerintahan Artahsasta jadi dua belas tahun lamanya, aku dan saudara-saudaraku tidak pernah mengambil pembagian yang menjadi hak bupati.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dari pada hari aku dititahkan menjadi penghulu mereka itu di negeri Yehuda, yaitu dari pada tahun yang kedua puluh, sampai kepada tahun yang ketiga puluh dua dari pada kerajaan Artahsasta, dua belas tahun lamanya, tiada tahu aku makan belanja penghulu, dan segala saudarakupun tidak.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ And from the time foorth that the king committed vnto me to be captayne of them that were in the lande of Iuda, euen from the twentie yere, vnto the thirtie & two yere of king Artaxerxes, that is twelue yeres, I with my brethre liued not of such sustinaunce as was geuen to a captayne. ¹⁵ For the olde captaynes that were before me, had ben chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread & wine, beside fouretie sicles of siluer, yea and their seruauntes had oppressed the people: But so did not I, and that because of the feare of God. ¹⁶ But I laboured also in the worke vpon the wall, and we bought no lande: and all my seruauntes came thither together vnto the worke. ¹⁷ Moreouer, there were at my table an hundred and fiftie of the Iewes and rulers, which came vnto me from among the heathen that are about vs. ¹⁸ And there was prepared for me dayly an oxe and sixe chosen sheepe, and birdes were prepared for me: and euer once in ten dayes wine for all in aboundance: Yet required not I the liuing of a captayne, for the bondage was greeuous vnto the people. ¹⁹ Thinke vpon me my God vnto the best, according to all that I haue done for this people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

from the twentieth: Nehemiah 2:1, Nehemiah 13:6

I and my: 1 Corinthians 9:4-15, 1 Corinthians 9:18, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9

the bread: Ezra 4:13, Ezra 4:14, Romans 13:6, Romans 13:7

Reciprocal: Judges 8:29 - in his own house 2 Samuel 23:3 - ruling Nehemiah 2:6 - I set him a time Nehemiah 5:18 - required Haggai 1:1 - governor Matthew 25:16 - went John 8:14 - yet 2 Corinthians 12:18 - in the same steps

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah,.... That is, by the king of Persia, which was not done when he was first sent into Judea; but very probably when he had finished the wall in fifty two days, he returned to Persia, and gave the king an account of his success, and how things stood in those parts, when he judged it necessary to send him again in the character of a governor, and which was still within the same year, as follows: from the twentieth year, even unto the thirty second year of Artaxerxes, that is, twelve years; see Nehemiah 13:6.

I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor; which was fit and proper for him, and used to be given him; neither he, nor those that assisted him in the government, the principal men he brought along with him, and put into posts and places under him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Have not eaten the bread of the governor - i. e. “have not, like other Persian governors, lived at the expense of the people under my government.” See Ezra 4:14 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. — From what is related here, and in the following verse, we find that the table of the governor was always supplied by the people with bread and wine; and, besides, they had forty shekels per diem for their other expenses. The people were also greatly oppressed by the servants and officers of the governor; but, during the twelve years that Nehemiah had been with them, he took not this salary, and ate none of their bread. Nor were his servants permitted to take or exact any thing from them. Having such an example, it was scandalous for their chiefs, priests, and nobles, thus to oppress an afflicted and distressed people.