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Verse 1-5 What made them poor? Slide - 4 That may be true of our day…but what was the problem then? The problems are spelled out in verses 1-15…they had large families…and it is likely that the people who were working for Nehemiah had left other jobs…such as farming…therefore there was a serious lack of grain… There was a famine going on…so they had taken to mortgaging their fields…vineyards and property …in order to survive… Thirdly…and importantly…they had to pay taxes…but…there is mention of having to pay sums of money to other Jews…probably…those in places of power within the King’s court…who were Jewish nobles…such as Nehemiah was… They are being oppressed by their own kind…and by the economic climate of the time… According to one commentator…Persia was under a post war recession…constantly expanding and having to increase you army and government bodies does that…so the system sucks more and more from the ordinary person… It’s the old story the poor get poorer… We know from the prophets of their time that God was opposed to that…furthermore…they often link together…the two things…oppression and famine…Haggai 1:10… Slide – 4 X 2