Nehemiah 5:2

For there were who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain that we may eat and live.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

In Context

1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

3There were some also who said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain because of the dearth.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Get you down there, and buy for us from there, that we may live, and not die.

Genesis 47:19Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land not be desolate.

Psalms 128:2For thou shall eat the labor of thy hands. Happy thou shall be, and it shall be well with thee.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 5:2-6

The Complaints of the Poor. ( b. c. 445.) 1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. 2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. 3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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