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Nehemiah 9:35

The Pulpit Commentary on Nehemiah 9:35

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

They have not served thee in their kingdom. There is no need of altering the reading here. "In their kingdom" means, "while they had a kingdom of their own, and were not subjects, as now, to a foreign power."

Thy great goodness. See above, . The large and fat land. Compare . Although the limits of Palestine are narrow, yet the land which God flare to his people, extending as it did from the Euphrates to the river of Egypt (), might well he termed a "large" or "broad" land.

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