Nehemiah 5:4

4. We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute These represent a third class, whose lands and vineyards seem to have afforded them food for their personal wants, but not money with which to pay the taxes assessed upon them. The princes and wealthier men among the Jews took advantage of this impoverishment of their poorer brethren to exact exorbitant and unlawful interest upon the money they loaned them. Nehemiah 5:7. This was expressly forbidden in the law. Exodus 22:25; Deuteronomy 23:19. But to obtain this money these persons also had to mortgage or pledge their lands and vineyards. These last two nouns are to be construed, grammatically, as accusatives after borrowed, which verb has not only the sense of borrowing something, but also of pledging something for that which is borrowed.