Graphic Bible · Scene 5 of 6
Nehemiah 5:14-16
A Governor at the Wall
Restore It Today · Nehemiah 5
Story guide: For twelve years Nehemiah takes no food allowance, buys no field, and applies himself with his men to the wall.
Open this scene in the reader →14Also, from the day that he appointed me to be governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes—twelve years—I and my brothers did not eat the governor’s food allowance.
15But the former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants ruled over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
16And I also applied myself to the work on this wall, and we did not buy any field, and all my young men were gathered there for the work.
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