Devine Scripture

Nehemiah 5:2

Nehemiah chapter 5 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

Context

v.1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

v.2This passage

v.3Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 41:57

    And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.

  • Psalms 128:2

    For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

  • Genesis 43:8

    And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

  • Malachi 2:2

    If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

  • Psalms 127:3

    Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward.

  • Genesis 42:2

    And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.