EXPOSITION
NEHEMIAH 2:1
IN THE MONTH NISAN. The fourth month after Chisleu, corresponding
nearly to our April. How it came about that Nehemiah did not put the
king's favour to the proof until more than three months had gone by we
can only conjecture. Perhaps the court had been absent from Susa,
pas... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION
NEHEMIAH'S JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (Nehemiah 3:9). On his way to
Jerusalem, Nehemiah would pass through the provinces of various
Persian satraps and governors. To those beyond the Euphrates he
carried letters, which he took care to deliver, though by doing so he
aroused the hostility of San... [ Continue Reading ]