Nehemiah 5:16
I continued - Overseeing, directing, and encouraging the workmen, which was my whole business; and this at my own cost. Bought - Of our poor brethren, whose necessities gave abundant opportunity of enriching myself with good bargains.
The Generosity of Nehemiah
14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year auntil the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers bate the governor’s provisions.
15 But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but aI did not do so, because of the bfear of God.
16 Indeed, I also continued the awork on this wall, and we did not buy any land. All my servants were gathered there for the work.
17 And aat my table were one hundred and fifty Jews and rulers, besides those who came to us from the nations around us.
18 Now that awhich was prepared daily was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine. Yet in spite of this I bdid not demand the governor’s provisions, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
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John Wesley's Notes
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