Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
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Gill's Exposition
Then said they, we will restore them,.... The lands, vineyards, oliveyards, and houses:
and will require nothing of them; not the hundredth part of the fruits of the earth by way of salary:
so…
Barnes' Notes
The hundredth part of the money ... - i. e. the interest. It is conjectured that the 100th part was payable monthly, or, in other words, that interest was taken at the rate of twelve per cent. The Law…
Adam Clarke
Also the hundredth part of the money - Houbigant contends,
1. That the word מאת meath, which we and the Vulgate translate one hundredth part, never means so anywhere; and
2. That it would have…
It should seem the foregoing complaint was made to Nehemiah at the time when he had his head and hands as full as possible of the public business about building the wall; yet, perceiving it to be…
Cambridge Bible
Restore, I pray you, &c. On -I pray you" see note on Neh 5:10. Nehemiah demands immediate redress for the wrongs done to fellow-countrymen. He demands restoration of property and remission of interest…
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