Nehemiah 1 - Introduction
_NEHEMIAH, HEARING THAT THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM WERE BROKEN DOWN, AND THE GATES BURNED, MOURNS WITH FASTING AND PRAYER._ _Before Christ 445._... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEHEMIAH, HEARING THAT THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM WERE BROKEN DOWN, AND THE GATES BURNED, MOURNS WITH FASTING AND PRAYER._ _Before Christ 445._... [ Continue Reading ]
NEHEMIAH— It may be well questioned, whether this Nehemiah be the same with him mentioned in Ezra 2:1 and chap. Nehemiah 7:7 of this book, as one who returned from the Babylonish captivity under Zerubbabel; since, from the first year of Cyrus to the twentieth of Artaxerxes Longimanus, there are no l... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WALL—ALSO IS BROKEN DOWN, &C.— The commissions which had hitherto been granted to the Jews were supposed to extend no further than to the rebuilding of the temple, and their own private houses; and therefore the walls and gates of the city lay in the same ruinous condition in which the Chaldeans... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GRANT HIM MERCY—FOR I, &C.— Houbigant supposes, that Nehemiah repeated this prayer (which he had often before repeated) now again in silence, while he administered the cup to the king in his office; and therefore he renders the last clause, _but I then administered the cup to the king;_ and this... [ Continue Reading ]