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:
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Gill's Exposition
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 terrible…
Adam Clarke
Lord God of heaven - What was, before the captivity, Jehovah, God of hosts or armies.
Great - Able to do mighty things.
Terrible - able to inflict the heaviest judgments.
We have here Nehemiah's prayer, a prayer that has reference to all the prayers which he had for some time before been putting up to God day and night, while he continued his sorrows for the…
Nehemiah's Prayer
This prayer falls into five portions: (1) the opening address, Neh 1:5; (2) the humble approach, Neh 1:6 a; (3) the confession of sins, Neh 1:6 b, 7; (4) the appeal to the Divine…
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