Nehemia 5:15

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Tetapi para bupati yang sebelumnya, yang mendahului aku, sangat memberatkan beban rakyat. Bupati-bupati itu mengambil dari mereka empat puluh syikal perak sehari untuk bahan makanan dan anggur. Bahkan anak buah mereka merajalela atas rakyat. Tetapi aku tidak berbuat demikian karena takut akan Allah.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi para bupati yang sebelumnya, yang mendahului aku, sangat memberatkan beban rakyat. Bupati-bupati itu mengambil dari mereka empat puluh syikal perak sehari untuk bahan makanan dan anggur. Bahkan anak buah mereka merajalela atas rakyat. Tetapi aku tidak berbuat demikian karena takut akan Allah.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Adapun segala penghulu yang dahulu dari padaku itu, ia itu sudah memberatkan orang banyak, diambilnya dari padanya makanan dan air anggur, lain dari pada empat puluh syikal perak, dan lagi hamba-hambanyapun merajalela atas orang banyak itu, tetapi perbuatanku bukannya demikian dari karena takut akan Allah.

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
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even their: 1 Samuel 2:15-17, 1 Samuel 8:15, Proverbs 29:12

so did: Matthew 5:47, 2 Corinthians 11:9, 2 Corinthians 12:13

because: Nehemiah 5:9, Job 31:23, Psalms 112:1, Psalms 147:11, Proverbs 16:6, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Ecclesiastes 12:14, Isaiah 50:10, Luke 18:2-4

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:11 - Surely Genesis 22:12 - now Genesis 39:9 - sin Genesis 42:18 - I fear God Exodus 1:17 - feared God Exodus 20:20 - his fear Leviticus 19:14 - fear Leviticus 25:17 - fear Leviticus 25:36 - fear Deuteronomy 25:18 - feared Judges 8:29 - in his own house 1 Samuel 2:16 - I will take 1 Kings 18:3 - feared the Lord 2 Chronicles 19:7 - let the Nehemiah 4:16 - my servants Nehemiah 5:18 - required Nehemiah 7:2 - feared God Job 1:8 - one Psalms 19:9 - The fear Psalms 26:11 - I will Psalms 119:161 - my heart Proverbs 3:7 - fear Proverbs 14:16 - feareth Proverbs 28:16 - prince Lamentations 5:8 - Servants Ezekiel 18:8 - hath withdrawn Zephaniah 1:9 - which Malachi 3:5 - fear Acts 9:31 - and walking Ephesians 5:21 - in Colossians 3:22 - fearing 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - chargeable

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan, Mahalchel, Iared.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the former governors, that had been before me, were chargeable to the people,.... Between him and Zerubbabel, for Ezra was no governor; according to the Jewish chronology m, when Ezra came to Jerusalem, Zerubbabel returned to Babylon, and there died, and his son Methullam was in his stead, and after him succeeded Hananiah his son:

and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; which amounted to between four and five pounds, and this they had every day:

yea, even their servants bare rule over the people; required a salary, or at least perquisites of them, which the governors connived at:

but so did not I, because of the fear of God; neither took anything himself of the people, nor suffered his servants; because the fear of God was upon his heart, and before his eyes, and therefore could not allow himself to oppress the poor.

m Seder Olam Zuta, p. 108, 109.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Forty shekels of silver - A daily sum from the entire province. For such a table as that kept by Nehemiah Nehemiah 5:18, this would be a very moderate payment.