Nehemiah 5:18
King James Version
“Now which was prepared daily one ox six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.”
Context
15But the former governors that 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.
16Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants gathered thither unto the work.
17Moreover at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that about us.
18Now which was prepared daily one ox six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
19Think upon me, my God, for good, to all that I have done for this people.