Nehemiah 5:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Nehemiah 5:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Distress among the Jews. Neither this nor the next section, Nehemiah 5:14-19 (the two belong closely together) can be in their right place. Nehemiah 5:1-13 deals with the economic straits to wh...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

have mortgaged . are mortgaging. the dearth. One of the thirteen famines (App-10) recorded in Scripture. See note on Genesis 12:10 .
Nehemiah 5:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. Because of the dearth - About the time of Zerubbabel, God had sent...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Because of the dearth— Not long before this, there had been a great scarcity for want of rain; which God thought proper to withhold, as a punishment for the people's taking more care to build their...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Nehemiah 5:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah's Measures in alleviation of Poverty 1. The people] i.e. the commons (as contrasted with the nobles and rulers, Nehemiah 5:7 ). These had neglected their own interests to labour gratuito...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Because of the dearth. — Not any particular famine, strictly speaking, but their present hunger. The past mortgages had straitened their resources.
Nehemiah 5:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

USURY Nehemiah 5:1-19 WE open the fifth chapter of Nehemiah with a shock of pain. The previous chapter described a scene of patriotic devotion in which nearly all the people were united for the...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Securing Justice for the Poor Nehemiah 5:1-19 The prospects of the poor people among the returned exiles were deplorable. There had been deficient rains and poor harvests, Haggai 1:6-11 . They...
Nehemiah 5:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

A new difficulty now presented itself. This time it arose among the people themselves. The rich among them exacted usury from their poorer brethren to such an extent as to oppress and impoverish them...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. (2) For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn f...
Nehemiah 5:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Nehemiah 5:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 [Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. Ver. 3. We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards,...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Because of the dearth Not long before this, there had been a great scarcity of corn through want of rain, which God had withheld as a punishment for the people's taking more care to build their own...
Nehemiah 5:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE GREED OF RULERS REBUKED (vv. 1-13) At a time when many were laboring unselfishly for the Lord, it is distressing to hear that others, and in fact those who were nobles and rulers, were guilt...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Complaints of the Poor. B. C. 445. 1 And there was a great cry of the people and of...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which might easily happen, both from the multitude of the people now in and near Jerusalem, and from their building work, which wholly took them up, and kept them from taking care of their own famili...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Problems Facing The Poorer People ( Nehemiah 5:1-5 ). The three examples that follow are representative of a whole range of problems rather than being specific, but underlying them are the pro...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 5:1 . Against their brethren ] i. e. the richer portion ( Nehemiah 5:7 ). Nehemiah 5:2-4 . There were that said ] Keil divides into three classes. ( a ) The wor...
Nehemiah 5:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 5:3 . Because of the dearth, specially inflicted by reason of the people's wickedness, after their return from Babylon. See more on Haggai 1:9 . Nehemiah 5:5 . We bring into bondage o...
Nehemiah 5:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

And there was a great cry of the people. The friend of the poor I. The complaint of the poor. It is sometimes alleged the poor have a morbid disposition to complain of their indigence and suffe...
Nehemiah 5:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION INTERNAL DIFFICULTIES , AND NEHEMIAH 'S MODE OF MEETING THEM ( Nehemiah 5:1-16 ). While the building of the wall was in progress, but not, so far as it is stated, in dir...
Nehemiah 5:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Complaint of the People Adjusted by Nehemiah
Nehemiah 5:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 15:7 ; Genesis 47:15-25 ; Leviticus 25:35-39 ; Malachi 3:8-11
Nehemiah 5:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The dearth — Which might happen, both from the multitude of the people in and near Jerusalem, from their work, which wholly took them up, and kept them from taking care of their families, and from...

Nehemiah 5:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nehemiah 5:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nehemiah 5:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 5:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 5:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 5:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Nehemiah 5:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 5:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah 5:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 5:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes