Nehemiah 5:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I likewise, and my brethren In office; who are employed with me in the government of this people; and my servants In my name and for my use; might exact of them money and corn As a just recompense for our pains and care for the public good, to which we wholly devote ourselves, even to the neglect of all our private concerns. But I freely remit my own right, and therefore you also ought to remit yours, seeing I lay no burden upon you but what I am willing to bear a part of upon my own shoulders.