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 * I testified.
 # 15
 * about the wall.  Heb. before the wall.  I will lay.
 # Ezr 7:26 Ro 13:3,4 1Pe 2:14
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 * I commanded.
 # 7:64,65 12:30 2Ki 23:4 1Ch 15:12-14 2Ch 29:4,5,24,27,30
 # Isa 49:23
 * cleanse.
 # 12:10
 * sanctify.
 # De 5:12
 * Remember.
 # 14,31 5:19 Ps 132:1-5 Isa 38:3 2Co 1:12 2Ti 4:7,8
 * spare me.
 # Ps 25:6,7 51:1 130:3,4,7 143:1,2
 * greatness.  or, multitude.
 # Ps 5:7 Isa 55:7
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 * married.  Heb. made to dwell with them.
 # 10:30 Ezr 9:2,11,12 10:10,44 2Co 6:14
 * Ashdod.
 # 1Sa 5:1
 * Ammon.
 # 1-3
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 * could not speak.  Heb. they discerned not to speak.  each
   people.  Heb. people and people.
 # Zep 3:9
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 * I contended.
 # 11,17 Pr 28:4
 * cursed.  or, reviled.
 # 5:13 De 27:14-26 Ps 15:4 Lu 11:45,46
 * smote.
 # De 25:2,3 Ezr 7:26
 * plucked.
 # Isa 50:6
 * made them.
 # 10:29,30 De 6:13 2Ch 15:12-15 Ezr 10:5
 * Ye shall not.
 # Ex 34:16 De 7:3
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 * Did not Solomon.
 # 1Ki 11:1-8 Ec 7:26
 * yet among.
 # 2Sa 12:24,25 1Ki 3:13 2Ch 1:12 9:22
 * who was beloved.
 # 2Sa 12:24
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 * Shall we then.
 # 1Sa 30:24
 * to transgress.
 # Ezr 10:2
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 * And one.
   Josephus relates, that this young man was named Manasseh; and
   that at his request, Sanballat and the Samaritans built their
   temple upon mount Gerizim, in opposition to that at Jerusalem,
   at which he officiated, in some measure, according to the
   Mosaic ritual.

 * Joiada.
 # 12:10,22
 * Eliashib.
 # 3:1
 * son in law.
 # 4,5 6:17-19
 * Sanballat.
 # 2:19
 * I chased.
 # 25 Ps 101:8 Pr 20:8,26 Ro 13:3,4
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 * Remember.
 # 6:14 Ps 59:5-13 2Ti 4:14
 * because they have defiled.  Heb. for the defilings of.
 # Le 21:1-7
 * the covenant.
 # Nu 16:9,10 25:12,13 1Sa 2:30 Mal 2:4-8,10-12
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 * cleansed.
 # 10:30
 * appointed.
 # 12:1-26 1Ch 23:1-26:32
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 * the wood.
 # 10:34
 * Remember.
 # 14,22 Ps 25:7 26:8,9 106:4 Lu 23:42



            CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH.

 Of Nehemiah, the author and principal actor in the events
 recorded in this book, the Jews speak as one of the greatest men
 of their nation.  His concern for his country entitles him to
 the character of the first patriot that ever lived.  Descended,
 according to some, of the family of Aaron, or according to
 others, of the tribe of Judah and allied to the royal family of
 David, in the course of Divine Providence, he was a captive in
 Babylon:  but there his excellences were so apparent, that he
 was chosen by the Persian king to fill an office the most
 respectable and the most confidential in the whole court.  Here
 he lived in ease and affluence:  he lacked no good thing; and
 here he might have continued to live, in the same affluence, and
 in the same confidence; but he could enjoy neither, so long as
 he knew his people distressed, the sepulchres of his fathers
 trodden under foot, the altars of his God overturned, and his
 worship either totally neglected or corrupted.  He sought the
 peace of Jerusalem; prayed for it; and was willing to sacrifice
 wealth, ease, safety, and even life itself, if he might be the
 instrument of restoring the desolations of Israel.  And God, who
 saw the desire of his heart, and knew the excellences with which
 he had endowed him, granted his request, and gave him the high
 honour of restoring the desolated city of his ancestors, and the
 pure worship of their God.  The opposition of Sanballat and the
 Samaritans, and the firmness and zeal with which he repelled
 their insults and ineffectual efforts cannot be read without the
 liveliest emotions; and will afford to the latest times, a noble
 and animating example of distinguished patriotism, united with
 the sincerest devotion to the interests of religion.  The virtue
 and piety of this great and good man, appear with equal lustre
 in the numerous and important reformations he effected.  He
 relieved the people from their hardships and oppressions, by
 abolishing the harsh and usurious practices of the nobles and
 rulers; gave up his own revenue, as governor of the province,
 for the benefit of the people; and, as a further means of
 conciliating their affections, exhibited an example of the most
 princely hospitality.  As the best security for good morals, and
 the better observance of the laws of God, he re-established the
 offices of public worship, and prevented the profanation of the
 sabbath, which had arrived at a shameful excess; he furnished
 the returned captives with authentic registers, and enabled
 them, in the best manner possible, after so long and calamitous
 an interval, to trace the genealogies, and claim the inheritance
 of their respective families; and further, he accomplished the
 separation of the Jewish people from the mixed multitude, with
 which they had been incorporated, and annulled the numerous
 marriages which they had made with heathens and idolaters of
 every description.  For disinterestedness, philanthropy,
 patriotism, prudence, courage, zeal, humanity, and every virtue
 that constitutes a great mind, and proves a soul in deep
 communion with God, Nehemiah will ever stand conspicuous among
 the greatest men of the Jewish nation; and an exemplar worthy of
 being copied by the first patriots in every nation under heaven.
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  1  Ahasuerus makes royal feasts.
 10  Vashti, sent for, refuses to come.
 13  Ahasuerus, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and
     makes the decree of men's sovereignty.

 * Ahasuerus.
   Prideaux has shewn satisfactorily that Ahasuerus was the
   Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks, agreeably to the
   Septuagint and Josephus.  See note on Ezr 6:14.

 # Ezr 4:6 Da 9:1
 * from India.
 # 8:9 Isa 18:1 37:9
 * an hundred.
 # Da 6:1
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 * sat.
 # 2Sa 7:1 1Ki 1:46 Da 4:4
 * Shushan.
 # 2:3 3:15 4:16 9:12-15 Ne 1:1 Da 8:2
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 * A.M. 3542.  B.C. 462.  he made.
 # 2:18 Ge 40:20 1Ki 3:15 Da 5:1 Mr 6:21
 * of Persia.
 # 14 Ezr 1:2 Isa 21:2 Jer 51:11 Da 5:28 8:20
 * the nobles.
 # Da 3:2,3 6:1,6,7
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 * When he.
 # Isa 39:2 Eze 28:5 Da 4:30
 * the riches.
 # Ps 76:1-4 145:5,12,13 Da 2:37-44 7:9-14 Mt 4:8 6:13 Ro 9:23
 # Eph 1:18 Col 1:27 Re 4:11
 * excellent.
 # 1Ch 29:11,12,25 Job 40:10 Ps 21:5 45:3 93:1 Da 4:36 5:18
 # 2Pe 1:16,17
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 * present.  Heb. found.  seven days.
 # 2Ch 7:8,9 30:21-25
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 * white.
 # Ex 26:1,31,32,36,37
 * blue.  or, violet.
 # 8:15
 * the beds.
   These were couches, covered with gold and silver cloth, on
   which the guests reclined; for the Orientals do not sit, but
   recline at their meals.

 # 7:8 Eze 23:41 Am 2:8 6:4
 * red, etc.  or, of porphyre, and marble, and alabaster, and
   stone of blue colour.
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 * vessels of gold.
 # 1Ki 10:21 2Ch 9:20 Da 5:2-4
 * royal wine.  Heb. wine of the kingdom.  state of the king.
   Heb. hand of the king.
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 * none did compel.
   Every person drank what he pleased.  Among the Greeks,
   however, each guest was obliged to keep the round, or leave
   the company:  hence the proverb [E pithi, e apithi,] Drink, or
   begone.  Mr. Herbert, in his poem entitled "The Church Porch,"
   has severely reprobated this vile custom.  In Britain,
   however, this demoralizing custom is now almost destroyed, and
   a new era of social pleasure is arising, by temperate habits,
   increased domestic comforts, and the spread of gospel truths.

 # Jer 35:8 51:7 Hab 2:15,16
 * the officers.
 # Joh 2:8
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 * the queen.
 # 5:4,8
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 * the heart.
 # Ge 43:34 Jud 16:25 1Sa 25:36,37 2Sa 13:28 Pr 20:1 Ec 7:2-4
 # Ec 10:19 Eph 5:18,19
 * Harbona.
 # 7:9
 * Harbonah.  chamberlains.  or, eunuchs.
 # Da 1:3-5,18,19
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 * Vashti.
 # Pr 16:9 23:29-33 Mr 6:21,22
 * fair to look on.  Heb. good of countenance.
 # 1Sa 25:3 2Sa 14:25 Pr 31:30
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 * the queen.
   This refusal of Vashti's, to expose herself to the view of
   such a group of drunken Bacchanalians, was highly
   praiseworthy, and became the dignity of her rank and the
   modesty of her sex.

 * refused.
 # Ge 3:16 Eph 5:22,24 1Pe 3:1
 * by his chamberlains.  Heb. which was by the hand of his
   eunuchs.  was the king.
 # Pr 19:12 20:2 Da 2:12 3:13,19 Na 1:6 Re 6:16,17
 * burned.
 # Ex 32:19,22 De 29:20 Ps 74:1 79:5
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 * the wise.
 # Jer 10:7 Da 2:2,12,27 4:6,7 5:7 Mt 2:1
 * knew.
 # 1Ch 12:32 Mt 16:3
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 * the seven.
 # Ezr 7:14
 * saw.
 # 2Ki 25:19 Mt 18:10 Re 22:4
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 * What shall we do.  Heb. What to do.
 # 6:6
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 * Vashti.
   This reasoning was inconsequent and false.  Vashti had not
   generally disobeyed the king, therefore she could be no
   precedent for the general conduct of the Persian women.  She
   disobeyed only in one particular; and this, to serve a
   purpose, Memucan draws into a general consequence:  and the
   rest came into the conclusion, being either too intoxicated to
   be able to discern right from wrong, or too intent on reducing
   women to a state of vassalage, to neglect the present
   favourable opportunity.

 * done wrong.
 # Ac 18:14 25:10 1Co 6:7,8
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 * despise.
 # 2Sa 6:16 Eph 5:33
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 * the ladies.
   {Saroth,} the princesses:  but the meaning is well expressed
   by our term ladies.

 # Jud 5:29 1Ki 11:3
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 * it please the king.  Heb. it be good with the king.
 # 21 3:9 8:5
 * from him.  Heb. from before him.  it be not altered.  Heb. it
   pass not away.
 # 8:8 Da 6:8-15,17
   Let it be inserted among the permanent laws, and be made a
   part of the constitution of the empire.  The Persians seem to
   have affected such a degree of wisdom in the construction of
   their laws, that they never could be amended, and should never
   be repealed; and this formed the ground of the saying, "The
   laws of the Medes and Persians that change not."

 * another.  Heb. her companion.  that is better.
 # 1Sa 15:28 1Ki 3:28
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 * throughout.
 # De 17:13 21:21
 * all the wives.
 # Eph 5:33 Col 3:18 1Pe 3:1-7
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 * pleased the king.  Heb. was good in the eyes of the king.
 # 19 2:4 Ge 41:37
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 * into every province.
 # 3:12 8:9 Da 3:29 4:1
 * that every man.
   Both the law of God and common sense taught this from the
   foundation of the world; and this parade of enactment was only
   to deprive Vashti of her crown.

 # Eph 5:22-24 1Ti 2:12 Tit 2:4,5
 * it should, etc.  Heb. one should publish it according to the
   language of his country.
 # 3:12
 * according.
 # Lu 16:8 Ac 2:5-11 1Co 14:19,20
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  1  Out of the choice of virgins a queen is to be chosen.
  5  Mordecai the nursing father of Esther.
  8  Esther preferred before the rest.
 12  The manner of purification, and going in to the king.
 15  Esther best pleasing the king, is made queen.
 21  Mordecai discovering a treason, is recorded in the
     chronicles.

 * A.M. 3543.  B.C. 461.  he remembered.
 # Da 6:14-18
 * what was decreed.
 # 1:12-21
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 * king's servants.
 # 1:10,14 6:14
 * Let there be.
 # Ge 12:14 1Ki 1:2
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 * in all the provinces.
 # 1:1,2
 * that they may gather.
   This was the usual way in which the harem, or {seraglio,} was
   furnished; the finest women in the land, whether of high or
   low birth, were sought out and brought to the harem.  They all
   became the king's concubines; but one was raised as chief
   wife, or sultana, to the throne; and her issue was especially
   entitled to inherit.

 * the custody.  Heb. the hand.  Hege.
 # 8
 * Hegai.  the king's chamberlain.
   {Saris hammelech,} "the king's eunuch:" so the LXX., Vulgate,
   Targum, and Syriac.

 * their things.
 # 12-14 Isa 3:18-23
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 * let the maiden.
 # Mt 20:16 22:14
 * the thing.
 # 1:21 3:9,10 2Sa 13:4-6 16:21-23 17:4 Mt 14:6
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 * Shushan.
 # 3 1:2 5:1
 * a certain Jew.
 # 3:2-6 10:3
 * the son of Shimei.
 # 1Sa 9:1 2Sa 16:5
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 * Jeconiah.
 # 2Ki 24:6,14,15 2Ch 36:9,10,20
 * Jeboiachin.
 # Jer 22:24,28
 * Coniah.
 # Jer 24:1
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 * brought up.  Heb. nourished.
 # Eph 6:4
 * Hadassah.
 # Da 1:6,7
 * his uncle's.
 # 15 Jer 32:7-12
 * fair and beautiful.  Heb. fair of form and good of
   countenance.
 # 1:11
 * took.
 # Ge 48:5 2Co 6:18 1Jo 3:1
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 * Hegai.
   One of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., instead of Hegai has Hegé, as in
   ver. 3.

 # 3
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 * she obtained.
 # Ge 39:21 1Ki 8:50 Ezr 7:6 Ne 2:8 Ps 106:46 Pr 16:7 Da 1:9
 # Ac 7:10
 * her her things.
 # 3,12
 * such things.  Heb. her portions.  preferred her.  Heb.
   changed her.
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 * had not shewed.
 # 3:8 4:13,14 7:4 Mt 10:16
 * for Mordecai.
 # 7,20 Eph 6:1
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 * Mordecai.
   The apartments of the women are accounted so inviolable, that
   it is even a crime to enquire what passes within their walls.
   A man, says Chardin, may walk a hundred days, one after the
   other, by the house where the women are, and yet know no more
   what is done there than at the farther end of Tartary.  This
   sufficiently explains the conduct of Mordecai.

 * walked.
 # 13,14
 * how Esther did.  Heb. the peace of Esther.
 # Ge 37:14 1Sa 17:18 Ac 15:36
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 * A.M. 3546.  B.C. 458.  to go in.
 # 1Th 4:4,5
 * six months.
 # Pr 7:17 So 3:6 Isa 57:9 Lu 7:37,38
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 # 13
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 * delighted.
 # 4:11 Ge 34:19 De 21:14 Isa 62:4,5
 * she were called.
 # Isa 43:1 45:4
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 * who had taken.
 # 7
 * Esther.
 # So 6:9 8:10 Ac 7:10
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 * the tenth month.
 # 8:9
 * the seventh.
 # 1,3 Ezr 7:8
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 * favour.  or, kindness.  in his sight.  Heb. before him.  so
   that he set.
 # 4:14 1Sa 2:8 Ps 75:6,7 113:7,8 Eze 17:24 Lu 1:48-52
   Bishop Patrick observes, that those who suggest that Esther
   committed a great sin to come at the dignity of queen of
   Persia, do not consider the custom of those times and
   countries.  Every one that the king took to his bed was
   married to him, and was his wife of a lower rank, as Hagar was
   to Abraham.