尼希米记 5:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我對他們說：“我們已盡了我們的能力，把那些賣了給外族人的同胞猶大人買贖回來，而你們還想要出賣你們的同胞，好讓我們再把他們買回來嗎？”他們都默不作聲，無話可說。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 对 他 们 说 ： 我 们 尽 力 赎 回 我 们 弟 兄 ， 就 是 卖 与 外 邦 的 犹 大 人 ； 你 们 还 要 卖 弟 兄 ， 使 我 们 赎 回 来 麽 ？ 他 们 就 静 默 不 语 ， 无 话 可 答 。

Contextual Overview

⁶ When I heard their complaints about these things, I was very angry. ⁷ After I thought about it, I accused the important people and the leaders, "You are charging your own brothers too much interest." So I called a large meeting to deal with them. ⁸ I said to them, "As much as possible, we have bought freedom for our fellow Jews who had been sold to foreigners. Now you are selling your fellow Jews to us!" The leaders were quiet and had nothing to say. ⁹ Then I said, "What you are doing is not right. Don't you fear God? Don't let our foreign enemies shame us. ¹⁰ I, my brothers, and my men are also lending money and grain to the people. But stop charging them so much for this. ¹¹ Give back their fields, vineyards, olive trees, and houses right now. Also give back the extra amount you charged—the hundredth part of the money, grain, new wine, and oil." ¹² They said, "We will give it back and not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say." Then I called for the priests, and I made the important people and leaders take an oath to do what they had said. ¹³ Also I shook out the folds of my robe and said, "In this way may God shake out everyone who does not keep his promise. May God shake him out of his house and out of the things that are his. Let that person be shaken out and emptied!" Then the whole group said, "Amen," and they praised the Lord . So the people did what they had promised.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

We after: Matthew 25:15, Matthew 25:29, 2 Corinthians 8:12, Galatians 6:10

redeemed: Leviticus 25:47-49

sell your: Exodus 21:16, Deuteronomy 24:7

shall they: Romans 14:15, 1 Corinthians 8:11

held: Job 29:10, Job 32:15, Matthew 22:12, Romans 3:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:13 - bought Genesis 31:15 - sold us Genesis 37:27 - sell him Exodus 21:2 - an Hebrew Leviticus 25:48 - General Leviticus 25:50 - price of his sale Deuteronomy 28:68 - there ye shall Nehemiah 9:37 - dominion Job 6:23 - Redeem Psalms 44:12 - increase Ecclesiastes 10:19 - but Amos 8:6 - General Zechariah 11:5 - sell Matthew 5:22 - his brother Matthew 18:25 - commanded Acts 11:29 - every 1 Corinthians 6:6 - brother Ephesians 6:9 - ye Revelation 18:13 - slaves

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I said unto them,.... The nobles, and rulers, and other rich persons that exacted usury of the poor:

we after our ability; speaking of himself in the plural number, which now obtained in the court of Persia; or of Zerubbabel, Ezra, and others, who, according as their worldly circumstances, having been captives, would admit of:

have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen; not that they had given a ransom for them to Cyrus, or any other king of Persia, which would be contrary to the prophecies concerning their redemption, Isaiah 45:13 but such who had sold themselves to particular persons in Babylon, who, without being redeemed, could not take the advantage of the liberty granted by Cyrus, and his successors; and it may be there were others also in the like circumstances, in other neighbouring nations, that had been redeemed this way. The Jewish canon i now is, he that sells himself, and his children, to Gentiles, they do not redeem; but they redeem the children after their father's death; which the commentators k explain of the third time that he sells himself:

and will you even sell your brethren? their lands and vineyards mortgaged to them, and even their persons:

or shall they be sold unto us? must we be obliged to buy them, and to redeem them:

then they held their peace, and found nothing to answer; being convinced they had done wrong, by the arguments used, to which they could make no reply.

i Misn. Gittin, c. 4. sect. 9. k Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nehemiah contrasts his own example with that of the rich Jews. He had spent money in redeeming some countrymen in servitude among the pagan; they were causing others to be sold into slavery among the Jews.