Nehemiah 5:14-19
from the twentieth Neh 2:1, Neh 13:6 I and my 1Cor 9:4-15, 1Cor 9:18; 2Thess 3:8-9 the bread Ezra 4:13-14; Rom 13:6-7 even their 1Sam 2:15-17, 1Sam 8:15; Prov 29:12 so did Matt 5:47; 2Cor 11:9, 2Cor 12:13 because Neh 5:9; Job 31:23; Ps 112:1, Ps 147:11; Prov 16:6; Eccl 12:13-14; Isa 50:10; Luke 18:2-4 I continued Luke 8:15; Rom 2:7; 1Cor 15:58; Gal 6:9 neither bought Num 16:15; Acts 20:33-35; 1Thess 2:5-6 all my 2Cor 12:16-18; Phil 2:20-21 Moreover He kept open house, and entertained all comers; besides having 150; Jews, who had their food constantly at his table, and at his expense. at my table 2Sam 9:7, 2Sam 9:13; 1Kgs 18:19 an hundred Isa 32:8; Rom 12:13; 1Pet 4:9-10 Now that 1Kgs 4:22-23 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 Neh 5:14-15 because the bondage Ps 37:21, Ps 37:26 Think Neh 13:14, Neh 13:22, Neh 13:31; Gen 40:14; Ps 25:6-7, Ps 40:17, Ps 106:4; Jer 29:11 according to Ps 18:23-25; Matt 10:42, Matt 25:34-40; Mark 9:41
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