Nehemiah 5:18
Now 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.
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Cross references
- 1 Kings 4:22–23 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal, ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
- Psalm 37:21 The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.
- Psalm 37:26 All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.