Nehemiah 5:1-4

Living Bible

5 About this time there was a great outcry of protest from parents against some of the rich Jews who were profiteering on them. ^2-4 What was happening was that families who ran out of money for food had to sell their children or mortgage their fields, vineyards, and homes to these rich men; and some couldn’t even do that, for they already had borrowed to the limit to pay their taxes.