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Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops… (Haggai 1:10) Haggai links the famine with the oppression which led to the exile…but…war…in the Persians expanding their empire…would have led to an economic recession… Human Greed does that…and God confronts that…especially when it was happening among His own people… Verses 6-11… A Righteous Judgement Slide - 5 So…Nehemiah spells out the problems and makes a righteous judgement… that is…these practices are not in keeping with God’s best plans and purposes… Nehemiah was angry at the charges for he knew well that these actions contradicted Old Testament Law… Jews were not meant to charge other Jews interest…the practice of selling one’s labour…or that of your family…was permitted…in extreme circumstance…but…only until the families debt was paid off…or for a maximum of 6 years… Slide 6 x 2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything… (Exodus Verse 5 seems to imply that…they had even sold their daughters…but because they were working on the walls…presumably unpaid…how could they raise the income to pay off the debts…