4Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We are here told, I. What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra’s humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation , to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his, E…
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