Nehemiah 5:1-5
Summary for Neh 5:1-13: 5:1-13 a Although severe financial problems threatened to derail the wall’s completion (5:1-5 b), Nehemiah worked out a solution (5:6-13 c).5:2 d Some farmers had diverted their efforts from raising crops to building the wall, leaving their large families in need of food to survive. Someone had to feed their families, or they would have to stop work on the wall and go home to work in their fields.
5:3 e Some small landowners had mortgaged everything to survive. The famine made the problem worse because grain was scarce and the price of food naturally increased.
5:4 f to pay our taxes: Despite the famine, the Persians did not cancel the onerous royal tribute due at harvest time.
5:5 g we must sell our children into slavery: See Exod 21:1-11 h. These families were desperate to survive.
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