Neh 2:2-5, Isa 53:3-4, Mat 8:14-16, Mar 5:38-43, Luk 7:12-13 | TSK | STEP | Why is thy. sorrow. Then I.Probably the king spoke as if he had some suspicion that Nehemiah harboured some bad design, and that his face indicated some conceived treachery, or remorse; and, indeed, the words rendered sad, and sorrow of heart, might be rendered evil, and wickedness of heart.

Nehemiah 2:2-5

Why is thy.

sorrow.

Then I.Probably the king spoke as if he had some suspicion that Nehemiah harboured some bad design, and that his face indicated some conceived treachery, or remorse; and, indeed, the words rendered sad, and sorrow of heart, might be rendered evil, and wickedness of heart.

Let the king.Far from wishing ill to my master, I wish him to live for ever.

1Ki 1:31; Da 2:4; 3:9; 5:10; 6:6,21

the city.

1:3; Ps 102:14; 137:6; La 2:9

the place.

2Ch 21:20; 28:27; 32:33

For what.

1Ki 3:5; Es 5:3,6; 7:2; Mr 10:51

So I prayed.

1:4,11; 2Sa 15:31; Pr 3:6; Php 4:6

If it please.

Ezr 5:17; Es 1:19; 5:8; 7:3; 8:5

and if thy.

Ru 2:13; 2Sa 14:22; Pr 3:4

Isaiah 53:3-4

despised.

49:7; 50:6; Ps 22:6-8; 69:10-12,19,20; Mic 5:1; Zec 11:8,12,13

Mt 26:67; 27:39-44,63; Mr 9:12; 15:19; Lu 8:53; 9:22; 16:14

Lu 23:18-25; Joh 8:48; Heb 12:2,3

a man.

4,10; Ps 69:29; Mt 26:37,38; Mr 14:34; Lu 19:41; Joh 11:35

Heb 2:15-18; 4:15; 5:7

we hid as it were our faces from him. or, he hid as it were,his face from us. Heb. as a hiding of faces from him or from us. we esteemed.

De 32:15; Zec 11:13; Mt 27:9,10; Joh 1:10,11; Ac 3:13-15

he hath.

5,6,11,12; Mt 8:17; Ga 3:13; Heb 9:28; 1Pe 2:24; 3:18; 1Jo 2:2

yet.

Mt 26:37; Joh 19:7

Matthew 8:14-16

into.

20; 17:25; Mr 1:29-31; Lu 4:38,39

wife's.

1Co 9:5; 1Ti 3:2; 4:3; Heb 13:4

touched.

3; 9:20,29; 14:36; 20:34; 2Ki 13:21; Isa 6:7; Mr 1:41; Lu 8:54

Ac 19:11-13

and ministered.

Lu 4:38,39; Joh 12:1-3

the even.

Mr 1:32-34; Lu 4:40

they brought.

4:24; 9:2; Mr 2:3; Ac 5:15

and he.

12:22; Mr 1:25-27,34; 5:8; 9:25; Ac 19:13-16

and healed.

14:14; Ex 15:26

Mark 5:38-43

and seeth.

Jer 9:17-20; Mt 9:23,24; 11:17; Lu 8:52,53; Ac 9:39

not dead.

Da 12:2; Joh 11:11-13; Ac 20:10; 1Co 11:30; 1Th 4:13,14; 5:10

they.

Ge 19:14; Ne 2:19; Job 12:4; Ps 22:7; 123:3,4; Lu 16:14; Ac 17:32

when.

2Ki 4:33; Mt 7:6; 9:24,25; Lu 8:53,54

he taketh.He took just so many as prudence required, and as were sufficient to prove the reality of the cure; to have permitted the presence of more, might have savoured of ostentation.

took.

1:31; Ac 9:40,41

Talitha cumi.[Talitha cumi;] which is pure Syriac, the same as in the Syriac version, the proper translation of which is given by the evangelist.

Damsel.

1:41; Ge 1:3; Ps 33:9; Lu 7:14,15; 8:54,55; Joh 5:28,29; 11:43,44

Ro 4:17; Php 3:21

1:27; 4:41; 6:51; 7:37; Ac 3:10-13

he charged.

1:43; 3:12; 7:36; Mt 8:4; 9:30; 12:16-18; 17:9; Lu 5:14; 8:56; Joh 5:41

and commanded.This was to shew that she had not only returned to life, but was also restored to perfect health; and to intimate, that though raised to life by extraordinary power, she must be continued in existence, as before, by the use of ordinary means. The advice of a heathen, on another subject, is quite applicable: {Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus inciderit.} "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to; when not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." To act otherwise would be to tempt God.

Given.

Lu 24:30,42,43; Ac 10:41

Luke 7:12-13

the only.

8:42; Ge 22:2,12; 2Sa 14:7; 1Ki 17:9,12,18,23; 2Ki 4:16,20

Zec 12:10

a widow.

Job 29:13; Ac 9:39,41; 1Ti 5:4,5; Jas 1:27

and much.

8:52; Joh 11:19

he.

Jud 10:16; Ps 86:5,15; 103:13; Isa 63:9; Jer 31:20; La 3:32,33

Mr 8:2; Joh 11:33-35; Heb 2:17; 4:15

Weep not.

8:52; Jer 31:15,16; Joh 20:13,15; 1Co 7:30; 1Th 4:13