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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 9:22

Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

Ver. 22. Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations] God gave them all; for he is the true proprietary, he pulleth down one, and setteth up another. This Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged (after he had been turned a grazing), and Charles V, emperor of Germany, who in twenty-eight battles in America, waged by Cortez and Pizarro, won twenty-eight kingdoms. And what a world of nations are swallowed up in the greatness of the Turkish empire! America hath the happiness to be out of their reach.

So they possessed the land of Sihon] God's favours must not be mentioned in the lump only, and by wholesale; but particularly enumerated and celebrated.

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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