A Great Outcry

Restore It Today · Nehemiah 5

Story guide: Families and their wives cry out over grain, mortgaged land, royal taxes, and children forced into debt service.

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1There arose a great outcry from the people and their wives against their Jewish brothers.

2And there were those who said, “We have many sons and daughters. Let us get grain, so that we may eat and live.”

3And there were others who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain during the famine.”

4And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.”

5And now, our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children; yet here we are, forcing our sons and our daughters into slavery, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved. But it is not in our power to help, and our fields and our vineyards belong to others.

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