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Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
Nehemiah 5:15
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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Proverbs 3:7 - fear Proverbs 14:16 - feareth Proverbs 28:16 - prince Lamentations 5:8 - Servants Ezekiel 18:8 - hath withdrawn Zephaniah 1:9 - which Malachi 3:5 - fear Acts 9:31 - and walking Ephesians 5:21 - in Colossians 3:22 - fearing 1 Thessalonians 2:9 - chargeable
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.
