3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-4)What a tribe Nehemiah was of does nowhere appear; but, if it be true (which we are told by the author of the Maccabees, 2 Macc. 1:18) that he offered sacrifice, we must conclude him to have been a priest. Observe, I. Nehemiah’s station at the court of Persia. We are here told that he was in Shushan the palace , or royal city, of the king of Persia, where the court was ordinarily kept (Neh. 1:1), a...
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