Nehemia 5:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Juga ada yang berteriak: "Kami harus meminjam uang untuk membayar pajak yang dikenakan raja atas ladang dan kebun anggur kami.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Juga ada yang berteriak: "Kami harus meminjam uang untuk membayar pajak yang dikenakan raja atas ladang dan kebun anggur kami.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi adalah setengah orang berkata demikian: Bahwa kami sudah menggadaikan bendang kami dan kebun anggur kami, supaya beroleh uang akan membayar upeti kepada raja.

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
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the king's tribute: Nehemiah 9:37, Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 28:48, Joshua 16:10, 1 Kings 9:21, Ezra 4:13, Ezra 4:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:14 - borrow Nehemiah 5:11 - their lands Proverbs 22:7 - the borrower Lamentations 1:1 - how is Matthew 22:17 - is Luke 20:22 - General John 8:33 - and were Romans 13:6 - pay Revelation 18:13 - slaves

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.

Genesis 5:1
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.

Genesis 5:3
And Adam lyued an hundreth and thirtie yeres, and begate a sonne in his owne lykenesse, after his image, & called his name Seth.

Genesis 5:7
And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:10
And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:13
And Kenan liued after he begate Mahalaleel eyght hudreth & fourtie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:19
And Iered liued after he begat Henoch, eyght hundreth yeres, & begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Genesis 5:26
And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:30
And Lamech lyued after he begat Noah, fiue hudreth ninetie & fiue yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There were also that said,.... Who though they were able to buy corn for their families without mortgaging their estates: yet, say they,

we have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards; for though the priests, Levites, and Nethinims, were exempted from it, yet not the people in common; and some of these were so poor, that they could not pay it without borrowing upon their estates, and paying large usury for it, see Ezra 6:8

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The king’s tribute - The tax payable to the Persian monarch (compare Ezra 4:13; Esther 10:1). In ancient times, heavy taxation was often productive of debt and distress.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 5:4. We have borrowed money — This should be read, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute on our lands and vineyards. They had a tax to pay to the Persian king in token of their subjection to him, and though it is not likely it was heavy, yet they were not able to pay it.