Nehemiah 6:9

For they.

14; 4:10-14; 2Ch 32:18

Their hands.

2Ch 15:7; Ezr 4:1-24; Isa 35:3,4; Jer 38:4; Heb 12:12

Now therefore.

1Sa 30:6; Ps 56:3; 71:1; 68:35; 138:3; Isa 41:10; Zec 10:12

2Co 12:9; Eph 3:16; 6:10; Php 4:13; 1Pe 5:10

Psalms 18:32

girdeth.The girdle was a necessary part of the eastern dress: It strengthened and supported the loins; served to confine the garments close to the body; and to tuck them in when journeying. The strength of God was to his soul what the girdle was to his body.

28:7; 91:2; 93:1; Isa 45:5; 2Co 3:5

maketh.

2Sa 22:33

Psalms 18:39

girded.

32; Eze 30:24,25

subdued. Heb. caused to bow.

66:3; 2Sa 22:40; 1Ch 22:18; Isa 45:14; 1Co 15:25-28; Eph 1:22

Php 3:21

necks.

La 5:5

that.

34:21; 2Sa 22:41; Pr 8:36; Joh 15:23

Psalms 144:1

1 David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man.

5 He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies.

9 He promises to praise God.

11 He prays for the happy state of the kingdom.

(Title.) A Psalm of David.Calmet and others think that this Psalm was composed by David after the death of Absalom; and from a collation of it with Ps 18, in which the same ideas and form of expression occur, there can be no doubt of both having proceeded from the same pen, and that David was the author.

my strength. Heb. my rock.

18:2,31; 71:3; 95:1; De 32:30,31; Isa 26:4; *marg:

Isa 45:24

teacheth.

18:34; 44:3,4; 60:12; 2Sa 22:35; 2Co 10:4; Eph 6:10,11

to war. or, to the war, etc.

Isaiah 45:1

1 God calls Cyrus for his church's sake.

5 By his omnipotency he challenges obedience.

20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power.

to his.

13:3; 44:28; 1Ki 19:15; Jer 27:6

whose.

41:13; 42:6; Ps 73:23

holden. or, strengthened.

Eze 30:21-24

to subdue.

41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; 51:11,20-24; Da 5:6,28-30; 7:5; 8:3

to open.All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king.

Na 2:6

Isaiah 45:5

the Lord.

14-18,21,22; 44:8; 46:9; De 4:35,39; 32:39; 1Ki 8:60; Joe 2:27

Joh 1:1; Heb 1:8,9

I girded thee.

22:21; Ezr 1:2; Job 12:18,21; Ps 18:32,39

Jeremiah 27:6-8

I given all.

28:14; Da 2:37,38; 5:18,19

my.

24:1; 25:9; 43:10; 51:20-23; Isa 44:28; Eze 29:18-20

and.

28:14; Ps 50:10-12; Da 2:38

all.

25:11-14; 50:9,10; 52:31; 2Ch 36:20,21

until.

25:12; 50:27; Ps 37:13; 137:8,9; Isa 13:1,8-22; 14:22,23; 21:9

Isa 47:1-5

Da 5:25-31; Hab 2:7; Zec 2:8,9; Re 13:5-10; 14:8,15-20; 16:19

Re 17:16,17; 18:2-8

many.

25:14; 50:1-51:64; Isa 14:4-6

And it.There is a peculiar grandeur, as well as propriety, in this method of predicting Nebuchadnezzar's rapid successes. The God of Israel, declaring himself to be the Lord of armies, and the Creator and Owner of the whole earth, with all its inhabitants and productions, and claiming full sovereignty over his creatures, avows his determination, for reasons he does not deign to assign, to give all the countries of the world to the king of Babylon, whom he calls his servant, because he would accomplish an important part of his most righteous designs. They, therefore, who would escape the most dreadful judgments, must submit to the God of Israel, by submitting to Nebuchadnezzar; they must hearken to the prophets of Israel, and not to their own diviners; and they must observe, that Nebuchadnezzar, his son, and his grandson, would whatever opposition should be made, possess the full dominion of all these countries, till the appointed time was expired; and then, these haughty conquerors would in their turn become the prey of other powerful conquerors; all of which was most exactly fulfilled.

that nation.

25:28,29; 38:17-19; 40:9; 42:10-18; 52:3-6; Eze 17:19-21

with the sword.

24:10; Eze 14:21

Ezekiel 30:25

they shall know.

19,26; 29:16,21; 32:15; 38:16,23; 39:21,22; Ps 9:16
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