Nehemiah 5:9

Translations

Modern

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Traditional

Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

Literal

And I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Is it not in the fear of our God that you should walk, because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Latin

Dixique ad eos: Non est bona res quam facitis: quare non in timore Dei nostri ambulastis, ne exprobretur nobis a gentibus inimicis nostris?

Original

Hebrew

English

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Notes

Nehemiah 5:9

walk in the fear of our God: See Leviticus 25:35–43.
avoid the reproach: See also Nehemiah 1:3; 2:19; 4:1–3.

Nehemiah 5:1–13

Severe financial problems almost stopped the wall's completion (Nehemiah 5:1–5), but Nehemiah found a solution (5:6–13).

Theme notes and profiles

Nehemiah Dealing with Conflict Jerusalem What Is Good

Related verses

Leviticus 25:36
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
Romans 2:24
As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Proverbs 18:5
Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
2 Samuel 12:14
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
1 Peter 2:12
Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
Titus 2:5
…to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
Genesis 42:18
…and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
Genesis 20:11
Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
Acts 9:31
Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
Nehemiah 4:4
Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.
1 Timothy 5:14
So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
Genesis 13:7–8
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.

Glossary

Banker, Banking Book of Nehemiah Debt Malachi, Book of Nehemiah (Person) Postexilic Period

Topics

Beneficence: The Jews Who Returned from the Exile Borrowing: General Scriptures Concerning Consistency: General Scriptures Concerning Country: Love of Covetousness in Exacting Usury from Their Brethren Creditor: Oppressions of Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Example: Good Fear of God: Reverence Gentiles: Blasphemous and Reproachful Inconsistency: The Jews, in Oppressing the Poor Interest Kindness: The Jews to the People Lending: General Scriptures Concerning Poor: Oppressions of Repentance: Because of Their Oppressive Usury Reproof: Faithfulness in Nehemiah, of the Jews Rulers: Wicked The Rich: General Scriptures Concerning Usury or Interest: The Jews: Required to Restore Usury: Exaction of, Rebuked

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