Nehemiah 5:3

Modern King James Version

Some also said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses. Let us buy grain because of the famine.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.

Nehemiah 5:2

For certain ones said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain for them, so that we may eat and live.

Nehemiah 5:4

And some said, We have borrowed money on our lands and vineyards for the king's tax.

Nehemiah 5:11

Please even today give back to them their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that you take from them.