Nehemia 5:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Yang disediakan sehari atas tanggunganku ialah: seekor lembu, enam ekor kambing domba yang terpilih dan beberapa ekor unggas, dan bermacam-macam anggur dengan berlimpah-limpah setiap sepuluh hari. Namun, dengan semuanya itu, aku tidak menuntut pembagian yang menjadi hak bupati, karena pekerjaan itu sangat menekan rakyat.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Yang disediakan sehari atas tanggunganku ialah: seekor lembu, enam ekor kambing domba yang terpilih dan beberapa ekor unggas, dan bermacam-macam anggur dengan berlimpah-limpah setiap sepuluh hari. Namun, dengan semuanya itu, aku tidak menuntut pembagian yang menjadi hak bupati, karena pekerjaan itu sangat menekan rakyat.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sehingga barang yang disediakan pada satu hari itu seekor lembu jantan dan enam ekor domba yang tambun dan beberapa ekor burung, dan pada tiap-tiap sepuluh hari pelbagai air anggur amat banyak; kendatilah demikian, tiada juga aku menuntut belanja seorang penghulu negeri, sebab tanggungan pekerjaan ini beratlah atas orang banyak itu.

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

Now that: 1 Kings 4:22, 1 Kings 4:23

one ox: 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.

required: Nehemiah 5:14, Nehemiah 5:15

because the bondage: Psalms 37:21, Psalms 37:26

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 5:11 - they Isaiah 3:7 - neither bread 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - chargeable

Cross-References

Genesis 4:17
Cain also knewe his wyfe, whiche conceaued and bare Henoch, and buyldyng a citie, he called the name of the same citie after the name of his sonne Henoch.

Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:15
Mahalaleel liued sixtie and fiue yeres, and begate Iered.

1 Chronicles 1:3
Henoh, Methusalah, Lamech.

Luke 3:37
Whiche was the sonne of Mathusala, whiche was the sonne of Enoch, which was the sonne of Iared, whiche was the sonne of Maleleel, whiche was the sonne of Cainan:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep,.... Or fat ones; of beef and mutton a considerable quantity, abundantly sufficient for his guests and servants, and shows what a good table he kept:

also fowls were prepared for me; what number is not said:

and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine; the country afforded; that is, either once in ten days his stock of wine was renewed, or a more liberal entertainment was made, a banquet of wine, Esther 5:6,

yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor; the salary that used to be given him, but did this at his own expense, out of his own estate in Judea; or what he had got by his office as cupbearer to the king of Persia, the salary of which perhaps was continued:

because the bondage was heavy upon the people; the tribute of the king of Persia, and their labour and expense in building the walls of the city.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the far grander provision for Solomon’s table (see the marginal reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. One ox, and six choice sheep — This was food sufficient for more than two hundred men.

Once in ten days store of all sorts of wine — It is supposed that every tenth day they drank wine; at all other times they drank water; unless we suppose the meaning of the phrase to be, that his servants laid in a stock of wine every ten days. Though the Asiatics drank sparingly of wine, yet it is not very likely that, in a case such as that above, wine was tasted only thrice in each month.

Bishop Pococke mentions the manner in which the bey of Tunis lived. He had daily twelve sheep, with fish, fowls, soups, oranges, eggs, onions, boiled rice, c., c., 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 is no mention of a fat ox; but there were six sheep at the bey's table more than were at the table of Nehemiah: so the twelve sheep were equal to six sheep and one ox. Probably the mode of living between these two was nearly alike.