“Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.”
Nehemiah 5:1 (WEB)
Context Reading
1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. 2For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.” 3There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”