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For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
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A Cry of Desperation
Commentators explain this is a cry of desperation. The issue wasn't having large families, which was a blessing, but the inability to feed them. Scholar John Gill notes they were forced to buy grain at exorbitant prices from their wealthy brethren. The situation was so dire, some scholars suggest the text implies they were even pledging their children as collateral just to survive.
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Nehemiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Are many - A slight emendation brings this verse into exact parallelism with the next, and gives the sense: "We have pledged our sons and ou…
19th Century
Anglican
We take up. — Let us receive. This is a general appeal for the governor’s help.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For there were that said, we, our sons, and our daughters, are many Not that they com…
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