Nehemiah 5:3

New King James Version

There were also some who said, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Nehemiah 5:4

There were also those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our lands and vineyards.

Nehemiah 5:11

Restore now to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them.”