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They have collected all the money, said he, that was there in the temple, and paid it out through the overseers to craftsmen and to masons. (2 Chronicles 34, 17)
But meanwhile, money was being spent on quarrymen and stone-masons; on food, too, and drink, and oil for the men of Tyre and Sidon, who must convey cedar planks from Lebanon by sea to Joppe, in pursuance of the Persian king’s decree. (Ezra 3, 7)
foreign wives and daughters-in-law had contaminated the sacred stock of Israel, and the chief blame for this lay with the rulers and magistrates themselves. (Ezra 9, 2)
some had offered vineyard or lands for a pledge when they would borrow money to pay the royal tribute. (Nehemiah 5, 4)
You are not the only creditors; I myself, my kinsmen and my servants have been lending money and corn on all sides. Come, let us conspire to forgo our rights, let us all remit the debt due to us; (Nehemiah 5, 10)
and do you restore, here and now, lands, vineyards, olive-yards and houses; restore, too, the interest charge you claim of a hundredth, for money and corn, wine and oil alike. (Nehemiah 5, 11)
My predecessors, by accepting corn, wine, and money, at the rate of forty sicles a day, had been a burden to the people, who suffered also from the exactions of their servants. Not so I, God’s fear preventing me; (Nehemiah 5, 15)
where these were of age to understand its import. Their leaders did but go bail for the rest; all alike entered into a sworn undertaking that they would obey God’s law, given through his servant Moses. Never a decree or award or observance the Lord our God had enjoined but they would keep it sacred and live by it. (Nehemiah 10, 29)
but as for recovering the money, I have little hope. Here is one who is a stranger to me, and I to him; what proof can I bring forward? Meanwhile, I must find my way to Rages, and of that I have no experience. (Tobit 5, 2)
Nay, said his father, I have the man’s bond here; do but shew him that, and he will restore the money without more ado. (Tobit 5, 3)
Up then, and find some man of credit, that will go with thee upon condition of a due reward; must I die before thou bring the money back to me? (Tobit 5, 4)
Would to God the money thou hast sent him to claim had never been thine! (Tobit 5, 24)
