Nehemiah 2 - Introduction
_ARTAXERXES, UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSE OF NEHEMIAH'S SADNESS, SENDETH HIM WITH LETTERS AND COMMISSIONS TO JERUSALEM._ _Before Christ 445._... [ Continue Reading ]
_ARTAXERXES, UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSE OF NEHEMIAH'S SADNESS, SENDETH HIM WITH LETTERS AND COMMISSIONS TO JERUSALEM._ _Before Christ 445._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE MONTH NISAN— Which answers to part of our March and April. So that it was almost four months between his hearing of the disconsolate condition wherein Jerusalem lay, and his requesting leave of the king to go thither. Now, besides that it might not come to his own turn of waiting sooner, ther... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY SHOULD NOT MY COUNTENANCE BE SAD, &C.— There is a piety due to one's own country, which cannot be extinguished by the pleasure or plenty of any other. It is no weakness to be deeply affected with the misfortunes or for the death of our nearest friends and relations, at what distance soever we ar... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SET HIM A TIME— How long this was is not certain. It is said, indeed, that he was governor of the land of Judah for twelve years, chap. Nehemiah 5:14 Nehemiah 13:6. But, considering what haste he made for dispatching the building of the walls, which he finished in fifty-two days, the leave tha... [ Continue Reading ]
RIVER— The river Euphrates.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH APPERTAINED TO THE HOUSE— _Which appertained to the house of the Lord._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
SANBALLAT THE HORONITE— This person was probably a petty prince of Moab; for Horonaim was an eminent city in that country, Isaiah 15:5. This Sanballat was the person who afterwards instigated Alexander the Great to build the temple of Gerizim, in order to occasion a division among the Jews. See Grot... [ Continue Reading ]