Bible Cross References
contend
Nehemiah 13:17
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, profaning the Sabbath day?
Nehemiah 13:25
So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Nehemiah 5:6-13
6
And I was extremely infuriated when I heard their outcry and these words.
7
After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, Each of you is exacting usury from his brother. So I appointed a great assembly against them.
8
And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brothers? Or should they be sold to us? Then they were silenced and found nothing to answer.
9
Then I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
10
I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Now let us leave off this usury!
11
Restore now to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them.
12
So they said, We will restore it, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say. Then I called the priests, and caused them to swear that they would do according to this word.
13
I also shook out empty the bosom of my garment and said, So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not carry out this word. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen! and praised Jehovah. Then the people did according to this word.
Job 31:34
then let me fear the great multitude, and let the contempt of families terrify me, and I will keep silent and not go out of the door.
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the Law praise the wicked, but those who keep the Law strive against them.
Why is the house
Nehemiah 10:39
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the rooms where the articles of the sanctuary are, where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are; and we will not neglect the house of our God.
1 Samuel 2:17
Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for the men had spurned the offering of Jehovah.
Malachi 3:8-11
8
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, How have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering.
9
You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation.
10
Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing until there is not enough room to store it.
11
And I will rebuke the devourer for you, and he shall not destroy the fruit of your ground; nor shall your vine fail to bear fruit in the field, says Jehovah of Hosts.