Nehemiah 5:3 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 5:3

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

BSB

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ASV

Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 Hag 1:10 for that was some years before this, and for a reason which now was not.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Because of the dearth - About the time of Zerubbabel, God had sent a judicial dearth upon the land, as we learn from Haggai, Hag 1:9, etc., for the people it seems were more intent on building houses for themselves than on rebuilding the house of the Lord: “Ye looked for much, and, lo, it is come to little; because of mine house that is waste; and ye run, every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The condition of the poorer inhabitants was indeed deplorable; for, besides the deficient harvests caused by the great rains (Ezr 10:9; also Hag 1:6-11), a dearth was now threatened by the enemy keeping such a multitude pent up in the city, and preventing the country people bringing in provisions.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְיֵשׁ֙	ve.Yesh	and there	H3426 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	[were those] who	H834 →
אֹמְרִ֔ים	'o.me.Rim	[were] saying	H559 →
שְׂדֹתֵ֛ינוּ	se.do.Tei.nu	fields our	H7704 →
וּכְרָמֵ֥ינוּ	u.khe.ra.Mei.nu	and vineyards our	H3754 →
וּבָתֵּ֖ינוּ	u.va.Tei.nu	and houses our	H1004 →
אֲנַ֣חְנוּ	'a.Nach.nu	we	H587 →
עֹרְבִ֑ים	'o.re.Vim	[are] mortgaging	H6148 →
וְנִקְחָ֥ה	ve.nik.Chah	and we will get	H3947 →
דָגָ֖ן	da.Gan	grain	H1715 →
בָּרָעָֽב׃	ba.ra.'Av	in the famine	H7458 →

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Deuteronomy 15:7
If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 15:9
  Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He…
- Proverbs 21:13
  Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
- 1 John 3:16–17
  By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
- James 2:15–16
  Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
- Matthew 18:30
  But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

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06About Nehemiah

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