John Gill, on Neh 5:5

“And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.”

“Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren,.... We are of the same nature, nation, stock, and religion: our children as their children; are circumcised as they, and have a right to the same privileges in church and state: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants; shall be obliged to it, unless relieved: and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already; sold to be servants, as they might in case of the poverty of parents, Exo 21:7, and some were sometimes taken to be bondmen in payment of their parents' debts, Kg2 4:1 neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards; as pledges for money borrowed.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.