Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
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Nehemiah’s appeal to God. The prayer is a perfect example of the private and individual devotion with which the later Hebrew Scriptures abound. It …
Charles Spurgeon
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And said, I implore you, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, who keeps covenant and mercy for those who love him and observe his …
John Gill
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Let your ear be now attentive
To his prayer, as in (Nehemiah 1:11) ,
and your eyes op…
Matthew Henry
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Nehemiah was the Persian king's cup-bearer. When God has work to do, He will never lack instruments to do it with. Nehemiah lived at ease and in ho…
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