Nehemiah 5:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For 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.

Nehemiah 5:2 —

Old words in this verse

corn: — grain, such as wheat or barley.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 128:2-4
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. …
Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Psalms 127:3-5
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. …
Genesis 43:8
And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
Genesis 42:2
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

We have here the tears of the oppressed, which Solomon considered, Eccl. 4:1. Let us consider them as here they are dropped before Nehemiah, whose office it was, as governor, to deliver the poor and needy, and rid them out of the hand of the wicked oppressors, Ps. 82:4. Hard times and hard hearts made the poor miserable. I. The times they lived in were hard. There was a dearth of corn (Neh. 5:3),…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Ne 5:1-5. The People Complain of Their Debt, Mortgage, and Bondage. 1-5. there was a great cry of the people ... against their brethren--Such a crisis in the condition of the Jews in Jerusalem--fatigued with hard labor and harassed by the machinations of restless enemies, the majority of them poor, and the bright visions which hope had painted of pure happiness on their return to the land of their…