And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. IL Y AVAIT UN GRAND CRI DU PEUPLE ... CONTRE SES FRÈRES. Une telle crise dans la condition des Juifs de Jérusalem fatigués de travaux forcés et harcelés par les machinations d'ennemis agités, la plupart d'... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_FOR THERE WERE THAT SAID, WE, OUR SONS, AND OUR DAUGHTERS, ARE MANY: THEREFORE WE TAKE UP CORN FOR THEM, THAT WE MAY EAT, AND LIVE._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. J'ÉTAIS TRÈS EN COLÈRE QUAND J'AI ENTENDU LEURS CRIS ET CES MOTS. Lorsque de tels désordres ont été portés à la connaissance du gouverneur, son honnête indignation a été suscitée mal; et, ayant convoqué une assemblée publique, il a déno... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_THEN I CONSULTED WITH MYSELF, AND I REBUKED THE NOBLES, AND THE RULERS, AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE EXACT USURY, EVERY ONE OF HIS BROTHER. AND I SET A GREAT ASSEMBLY AGAINST THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
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. RESTAUREZ, JE VOUS PRIE, À EUX ... LEURS TERRES, LEURS VIGNES ... AUSSI LA CENTIÈME P... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_THEN SAID THEY, WE WILL RESTORE THEM, AND WILL REQUIRE NOTHING OF THEM; SO WILL WE DO AS THOU SAYEST. THEN I CALLED THE PRIESTS, AND TOOK AN OATH OF THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD DO ACCORDING TO THIS PROMISE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise. J'AI AUSSI SECOUÉ MES... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. DE PLUS, DEPUIS LE MOMENT OÙ J'AI ÉTÉ NOMMÉ... [ Continuer la lecture ]
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God. LES ANCIENS GOUVERNEURS ... EN AVAIENT PRIS DU... [ Continuer la lecture ]
_YEA, ALSO I CONTINUED IN THE WORK OF THIS WALL, NEITHER BOUGHT WE ANY LAND: AND ALL MY SERVANTS WERE GATHERED THITHER UNTO THE WORK._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continuer la lecture ]
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us. DE PLUS, IL Y AVAIT À MA TABLE CENT CINQUANTE JUIFS. En Orient, il a toujours été de coutume de calculer les frais d'établissement d'un roi ou d'u... [ Continuer la lecture ]