For there were those that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore let us get grain for them, that we may eat, and live.
All Commentaries on Nehemiah 5:2 Go To Nehemiah 5
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Very. Syriac, "and our brethren are too numerous "to find meat.
For Hebrew, Septuagint, "by force. "(Abenezra)
Yet most people explain it in the sense of the Vulgate. It was permitted to sell children in extreme distress, Exodus xxi. 7. (Grotius) (Calmet)
