Others were saying, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine."
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:2Some were saying, "We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive."
Nehemiah 5:4Still others were saying, "We have borrowed money to pay the king's tax on our fields and vineyards.
Treasury of Scripture
Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
mortgaged
Genesis 47:15-25
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth…
Leviticus 25:35-39
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee…
Deuteronomy 15:7
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
because
Malachi 3:8-11
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings…
