Nehemiah 5:3

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Also some said, We are mortgaging our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the scarcity.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:11

Return this very day to them their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, and also a hundredth of all the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have exacted from them.

Nehemiah 5:2

For some said, We, our sons and daughters, are many; therefore allow us to take grain, that we may eat and live! If we are not given grain, let us take it!

Nehemiah 5:4

Others said, We have borrowed money on our fields and vineyards to pay the [Persian] king's heavy tax.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there is among you a poor man, one of your kinsmen in any of the towns of your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your [minds and] hearts or close your hands to your poor brother;