18Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
Nehemiah 5 pivots from the external threat of opposition to an internal crisis: the wealthy Jewish nobles are exploiting their own people through usury and debt-slavery, even as the wall rises. Nehemiah confronts this injustice with righteous anger, forcing a public repentance an
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