Nehemia 5:2

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Ada yang berteriak: "Anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan kami banyak dan kami harus mendapat gandum, supaya kami dapat makan dan hidup."

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ada yang berteriak: "Anak laki-laki dan anak perempuan kami banyak dan kami harus mendapat gandum, supaya kami dapat makan dan hidup."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena adalah setengah orang berkata demikian: Bahwa anak-anak laki-laki dan perempuan kami, sekalian kami ini banyak adanya, maka sebab itu kami sudah membeli utang gandum, supaya kami boleh makan dan hidup.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

our sons: Psalms 127:3-5, Psalms 128:2-4, Malachi 2:2

we take up corn: Genesis 41:57, Genesis 42:2, Genesis 43:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:19 - buy us Exodus 22:25 - General Deuteronomy 28:32 - sons 2 Kings 4:1 - the creditor Job 29:12 - I delivered Psalms 15:5 - putteth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For there were that said, we, our sons, and our daughters, are many,.... Not that they complained of the number of their children, for a numerous offspring was always reckoned a blessing with the Jews; but this they observed to show that their families, being large, required a considerable quantity of food to support them:

therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat and live; that is, they were obliged to take it at an exorbitant price, which is the thing complained of; or otherwise they must starve, the rich taking the advantage of their poverty and present dearth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Are many - A slight emendation brings this verse into exact parallelism with the next, and gives the sense - “We have pledged our sons and our daughters, that we might get corn, and eat and live.” Compare Nehemiah 5:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 5:2. We, our sons, and our daughters, are many — Our families are larger than we can provide for; we are obliged to go in debt; and our richer brethren take advantage of our necessitous situation, and oppress us. The details which are given in the next verse are sufficiently plain.