Nehemiah’s Example of Selfless Leadership

Nehemiah 5:14-19

Besides that, from the time I was appointed their governor in the land of Y'hudah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Artach'shashta the king - that is, for twelve years - neither I nor my colleagues drew on the governor's living allowance.

The earlier governors, before me, had burdened the people, taxing them more than one-and-a-half pounds of silver shekels for food and wine; and even their servants lorded it over the people. But I didn't, because I feared God.

Moreover, I put all my energy into working on this wall. We didn't buy any land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

There were 150 leaders and other Judeans who ate at my table, besides those who came to us from the surrounding nations.

Every day one ox, six choice sheep, and fowl were prepared for me, and every ten days a supply of all kinds of wine. Yet in spite of all this, I never claimed the governor's allowance, because the people were already bearing the heavy burden of their labor.

Nehemiah’s Example of Selfless Leadership

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