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Nehemiah 5:17 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 5 · verse 17
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.Nehemiah 5:17 · King James Version
Nehemiah 5:17 in context
15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
16Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.
17Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
18Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- heathengôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- rulersçâgâna prefect of a provinceH5461 →
- tableshulchâna tableH7979 →
- fiftychămishshîymfiftyH2572 →
- fiftyʼîysha man as an individual or a male personH376 →
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Nehemiah had mentioned his own practice, as an inducement to the nobles not to burden the poor, no, not with just demands; here he relates more particularly what his practice was, not inn pride or vain-glory, nor to pass a compliment upon himself, but as an inducement both to his successors and to the inferior…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-19