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 families, and from the expectation and dread of their enemies invasion, which hindered them from going abroad to fetch in provision, and the people round about from bringing it in to them; or from divers other causes.
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Nehemiah 5:3
3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.