Nehemia 5:2

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."

Parallel Translations

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."

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.

Contextual Overview

¹ And there arose a great complaynt of the people and their wyues against their brethre the Iewes. ² For there were some that saide, Our sonnes and daughters and we are very many: therefore wyll we take corne for them, that we may eate and liue. ³ Some also there were that saide: Let vs set our landes, vineyardes, and houses to pledge, and take vp corne in the dearth. ⁴ But some there were that saide: We haue borowed money for the kinges tribute, and that vpon our landes & vineyardes. ⁵ And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his owne image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.

Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God toke the man, and put hym in the garden of Eden, that he myght worke it, and kepe it.

Genesis 2:23
And man saide: this is nowe bone of my bones, and fleshe of my fleshe, she shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

Malachi 2:15
And did not he make one? yet had he aboundaunce of spiritie: And wherfore one? Because he sought a godly seede: therefore kepe your selues in your spirite, and let none transgresse against the wyfe of his youth.

Matthew 19:4
He aunswered and sayde vnto them: Haue ye not read, that he which created at the begynnyng, made them male and female,

Mark 10:6
But from the begynnyng of the creation, God made them male & female.

Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation:

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.