Nehemiah 5:5
We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
6When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,
Cross References
Genesis 29:14Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
Exodus 21:1“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
Leviticus 25:39If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
Proverbs 22:7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Matthew 18:25Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
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 →