Matthew Poole Commentary - Nehemiah 1:3

Matthew Poole Commentary - Nehemiah 1:3 - 1:3

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Nehemiah 1:3 - 1:3

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1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
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1:11 - 1:11

In the province, i.e. in Judea, which was now made a province under the Persian monarchs: See Poole "Ezr_5:8".

In great affliction and reproach; despised and distressed by the neighbouring nations.

The wall is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned, i.e. the walls and gates continue in the same woeful plight in which Nebuchadnezzar left them; the Jews not being yet in a condition to rebuild them, nor having commission from the kings of Persia to do so, but only to build the temple and their own private houses. And this made their enemies scorn them; who also would have ruined them, but for fear of offending the Persian king.