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Nehemiah 9:32

The Pulpit Commentary on Nehemiah 9:32

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible. Compare , with the comment. Who keepest covenant and mercy. This phrase, which occurs also in , has apparently been derived from the Psalmist's words—"My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him" ().

All the trouble. Literally, "the weariness;" but the word is clearly used here for "suffering'' generally. Since the time of the kings of Assyria. The kings of Assyria, in the strictest sense of the word, had been God's original instrument for punishing his rebellious people.

A king not mentioned in Holy Scripture tells us that he defeated Ahab, and forced Jehu to pay him tribute. Another (Pul) took tribute from Menahem (, ). A third (Tiglath. Pfieser) carried two tribes and a half into captivity (ibid.

verse 29; ). A fourth (Shalmaneser) laid siege to Samaria (), and a fifth (Sargon) took it. A sixth (Sennacherib) took all the fenced cities of Judah from Hezekiah, and forced him to buy the safety of Jerusalem ().

A seventh (Esar-haddon) had Manasseh brought as a prisoner to Babylon (). Hence Isaiah calls the Assyrian monarch "the rod of God's anger" ().

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