Nehemiah 1:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: ”

Nehemiah 1:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

PART III ( Nehemiah 1:1 to Nehemiah 7:73 a ). The Work of Nehemiah. Nehemiah 1:1-11 a. Nehemiah, Hearing of the Evil Plight of his Brethren in Jerusalem, Prays for Divine Aid. Nehemiah...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

LORD . Jehovah. See App-4. GOD. Hebrew. 'El (with Art.) See App-4. keepeth covenant. Nehemiah goes back to the language of the Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 7:9 ). observe . keep. Compare Exod...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: Lord God of heaven - What was, before...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: No JFB commentary on these ver...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ill News from Jerusalem. Nehemiah's Prayer 1. The words] better, 'the history.' Some thirteen or fourteen years separate the visit of Nehemiah to Jerusalem, recorded in this book, from that of Ezr...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(4-11) 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 begins with formal and appropriate invocation...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

NEHEMIAH'S PRAYER Nehemiah 1:4-11 NEHEMIAH records the twofold effect of the melancholy news which his brother and the other travellers from Jerusalem brought him. Its first consequence was gri...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Patriot's Prayer Nehemiah 1:1-11 Though living in luxury, in the winter palace of the Persian kings, Nehemiah's heart was keenly sensitive to all that affected his people. But he turned from...
Nehemiah 1:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the last Book of Old Testament history. An interval of about twelve years occurred between the reformation under Ezra and the coming of Nehemiah. The story is the continuation of the work com...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) В¶ And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: (6) Let thine ear now be attent...
Nehemiah 1:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven ,.... He prayed not to the host of heaven, the sun in it, as the Persians, but to the God of it, in an humble supplicant manner: the great and terrib...
Nehemiah 1:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: Ver. 5. I beseech thee, O Lord ] An...
Nehemiah 1:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MOVED BY THE REPORTED CONDITION OF JERUSALEM Though verse 1 makes it clear that this whole book records "the words of Nehemiah," it may be that Nehemiah spoke these words to another person, who wr...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah's Prayer. B. C. 445. 5 And said, I beseech thee, O L ORD God of heaven, the...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Nehemiah 1:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah's Cry Goes Up To God ( Nehemiah 1:4-11 ). So Nehemiah now did what God's true people always do when they face adversity. He prayed to YHWH. The prayer is very much an individualistic one,...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 1:1 . The words ] (Heb. Divray). See 1 Kings 11:41 , where the same word is rendered “acts.” Hachaliah ] His ancestral home was Jerusalem ( Nehemiah 2:3 ). Hence he...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nehemiah 1:1-2 . The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, That Hanani, one of my brethren came, h...
Nehemiah 1:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 1:1 . The words of Nehemiah. Poole, in his Synopsis of the Critics, having examined very accurately what antiquity has said concerning the author of this book, I cannot do better than tra...
Nehemiah 1:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. The royal cup-bearer I. Let us notice the words alluded to by Nehemiah. They were as follows : “And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twe...
Nehemiah 1:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART I. INTRODUCTORY SECTION . Nehemiah 1:1-16 ; Nehemiah 2:1-16 . EXPOSITION CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH NEHEMIAH OBTAINED HIS COMMISSION TO REBUILD THE WALL OF JER...
Nehemiah 1:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah's Grief over Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 17:21 ; 1 Kings 8:23 ; Daniel 9:4-19 ; Deuteronomy 7:21 ; Deuteronomy 7:9 ; Exodus 20:6 ; Hebrews 6:13-18 ; Nehemiah 4:14 ; Psalms 47:2
Nehemiah 1:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Nehemiah's Prayer Nehemiah 1:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are now entering a new series of three sermons concerning Nehemiah and the depleted city of Jerusalem which he loved. In this study we w...

Nehemiah 1:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nehemiah 1:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nehemiah 1:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nehemiah 1:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nehemiah 1:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nehemiah 1:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nehemiah 1:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nehemiah 1:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nehemiah 1:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nehemiah 1:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Nehemiah 1:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nehemiah 1:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nehemiah 1:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 1:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary