Now that
1 Kings 4:22
And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
1 Kings 4:23
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
required
Nehemiah 5:14
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
because the bondage
Psalm 37:21
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Psalm 37:26
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.