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Nehemiah Chapter 5 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Nehemiah 5:4

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute `upon' our fields and our vineyards.
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BBE Nehemiah 5:4

And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
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DARBY Nehemiah 5:4

And there were that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and vineyards;
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KJV Nehemiah 5:4

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
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WBT Nehemiah 5:4

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
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WEB Nehemiah 5:4

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards.
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YLT Nehemiah 5:4

And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - The king's tribute. Judaea, like other Persian provinces, had to pay a tribute, partly in money and partly in kind, yearly to the Persian monarch (see the comment on Ezra 4:13); but there is no reason to believe that this burthen was generally felt as oppressive, nor that it was heavier in Judaea than elsewhere. But by the very poor even a small amount of direct taxation is felt as a grievance; and the necessity of meeting the demands of the tax-gatherer was in the ancient world often the turning-point, which compelled the contracting of a debt (Liv., 2:23); and so it seems to have been with these complainants,

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) We have borrowed money for the king's tribute.--Literally, we have made our fields and vineyards answerable for the payment of the Persian tribute. They had pledged the coming produce.