Nehemiah 5:2

For there were some who said, “With our sons and daughters we are many. So let us get grain that we may eat and stay alive.”

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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 the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.

3There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain during the famine.”

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Cross References

Genesis 42:2He said, “See here, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there so we may live and not die.”

Genesis 47:19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

Psalms 128:2What your hands provide, you will enjoy; 1 you will be blessed and prosper. 1

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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