Nehemiah 5:3

3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Nehemiah 5:3 in Other Translations

3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

ESV

3 There were also those who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine."

NLT

3 Others said, “We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine.”

MSG

3 Others said, "We're having to mortgage our fields and vineyards and homes to get enough grain to keep from starving."

CSB

3 Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine."

Nehemiah 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3

Some also there were that said, we have mortgaged our lands,
vineyards, and houses
Made them over to others, put them into their hands as pledges for money received of them:

that we may buy corn;
for the support of their families:

because of the dearth;
or famine; which might be occasioned by their enemies lying in wait and intercepting all provisions that might be brought to them; for this seems not to be the famine spoken of in ( Haggai 1:10 Haggai 1:11 ) for that was some years before this, and for a reason which now was not.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 In-Context

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

2 Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”

3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

4 Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

5 Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

Cross References 2

1. Psalms 109:11
2. Genesis 47:23

Nehemiah 5:3

Share

Settings

Nehemiah 5:3 in Other Translations

Nehemiah 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 In-Context

Cross References 2