--- title: "Bullinger" description: "a great cry. So there were troubles within as well as without. Compare 2 Corinthians 7:5 . the people = the common people, in contrast with the nobles a" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/nehemiah/5" --- **a great cry.** So there were troubles within as well as without. Compare [2 Corinthians 7:5](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/7/5) . **the people** = the common people, in contrast with the nobles and rulers ([Nehemiah 5:7](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/7) ), who had returned with Nehemiah. **have mortgaged** = are mortgaging. **the dearth.** One of the thirteen famines ( App-10 ) recorded in Scripture. See note on [Genesis 12:10](../../../kjv/genesis/12/10) . **children** = sons. **lo.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **Then** = And. **rulers.** See note on [Nehemiah 2:16](../../../kjv/nehemiah/2/16) . **exact usury.** It was twelve per cent. See [Nehemiah 5:11](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/11) . **one** = man. **set** = appointed. **assembly** = body [of witnesses. ] Hebrew. *kehallah* (feminine.) Occurs only here and [Deuteronomy 33:4](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/4) . **against** = over. **redeemed** = re-purchased. Hebrew. *kanah* , to acquire by purchase; not *ga'al* , to redeem by purchase; or *padah* , to deliver by power. See notes on [Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) ; [Exodus 13:13](../../../kjv/exodus/13/13) . **heathen** = nations. **do** = are doing. **ought ye . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **servants** = young men. **leave off.** Hebrew. *Homonym, 'azab.* Here means to leave off. See note on [Nehemiah 3:8](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/8) . **the hundredth part.** Paid at one per cent, per month, as was the custom; it was twelve per cent, per annum. **the wine.** Some codices, with two early printed editions and Syriac, read "and the new wine". **wine.** Hebrew. *tirosh.* App-27 . **as** = according as. **called:** i.e. as witnesses. **congregation** = assembly or muster. **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* **Moreover from the time that I was appointed, &c.** [Nehemiah 5:14-19](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/14-19) are put within brackets for the following reasons: As Nehemiah's record must have been written many years later, after the dedication both of the Temple (405 B.C.) and the Wall (403 B.C.), the reference to his policy during the twelve years of his governorship, from the twentieth to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes (Darius Hystaspis, 419-407 B. C), is introduced here, in order to emphasize the contrast between the rapacity of "the nobles and rulers" ([Nehemiah 5:7](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/7) ), and his own conduct. For he says that, not only at that time (454 B.C.) did he not exploit the people for his own advantage, but that during his governorship (which ended in 407 B. C, some four or five years at least before the time of his writing the final record, more than forty years later than 454), when, according to Eastern views, he would have been justified in getting as much as he could out of his office, he not only lived entirely at his own charges but supported others also. See note below on [Nehemiah 13:4-9](../../../kjv/nehemiah/13/4-9) . **time** = day. **governor** = Pasha. **from the twentieth year.** See App-50 . (5). **Artaxerxes** = the great king, viz. Astyages. See notes on p. 618, and App-57 . **the bread of the governor.** The supplies due to him from the people. See [Nehemiah 5:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/14) for a longer note that applies to this verse. **beside.** Heb, *'ahar* = after: i.e. after the rate of, as in [Jeremiah 3:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/3/17) ; [Jeremiah 18:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/12) . Rendered "beside" only here, out of several hundred times. See [Nehemiah 5:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/14) for a longer note that applies to this verse. **we** ***.*** Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "I" See [Nehemiah 5:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/14) for a longer note that applies to this verse. **fifty of** = fifty men of. **heathen** = nations. See [Nehemiah 5:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/14) for a longer note that applies to this verse. **prepared.** At Nehemiah's own cost. **wine.** Hebrew. *yayin.* App-27 . 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