⁴ There also were those who said, “We have borrowed money ^(A)for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.

¹⁵ But the previous governors who were before me ^[a]laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so ^(A)because of my fear of God.