Nehemiah 1:9
But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
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Gill's Exposition
But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them,.... Return by repentance, and, as a proof of the genuineness of it, yield obedience to the commands of God, and continue therein:…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
The Promise. The appeal to this promise marks the crisis of the prayer.
if ye turn R.V. return. The word, as in Deu 30:2, is stronger than to -turn". It denotes a -return" from a wrong road. The back…
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