THEOSISNehemiah 5:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And there were some that said: Our sons and our daughters are very many: let us take up corn for the price of them, and let us eat and live.
וְיֵשׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֹמְרִ֔ים בָּנֵ֥ינוּ וּבְנֹתֵ֖ינוּ אֲנַ֣חְנוּ רַבִּ֑ים וְנִקְחָ֥ה דָגָ֖ן וְנֹאכְלָ֥ה וְנִחְיֶֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 128 (127):2
- Ps 128 (127):4
- Mal 2:2If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts: I will send poverty upon you, and will curse your blessings, yea I will curse them, because you have not laid it to heart.
- Gen 43:8And Juda said to his father: Send the boy with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.
- Gen 41:57And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
- Ps 127 (126):3
- Ps 127 (126):5
- Gen 42:2I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: Go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.