Nehemiah 5

Nehemiah 5:5

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, &c.

There is no difference in nature, in flesh or blood, betwixt us and the rest of Israel: why should we, without any fault of our part, be in worse condition than they?

Nehemiah 5:14

I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

I and my family have not taken that allowance, which was appointed for the governor; so as, though I wielded the place, yet