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Nehemiah 5:4 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 5 · verse 4
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.Nehemiah 5:4 · King James Version
Nehemiah 5:4 in context
2For 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.
3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
6And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- borrowedlâvâhproperly, to twineH3867 →
- tributemiddâhproperly, extensionH4060 →
- king'smeleka kingH4428 →
- moneykeçephsilverH3701 →
- landssâdeha fieldH7704 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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We have here the tears of the oppressed, which Solomon considered, Ecc 4:1. Let us consider them as here they are dropped before Nehemiah, whose office it was, as governor, to deliver the poor and needy, and rid them out of the hand of the wicked oppressors, Psa 82:4.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5