Nehemiah 6

Nehemiah 6:1

Like to that - The whole solemnity was performed exactly according to the law, whereas in Hezekiah’s passover there were several irregularities: likewise Josiah furnished the whole congregation with beasts for sacrifice at his own charge, which no king ever did before him.

Nehemiah 6:3

After all - When he and his people hoped that God was reconciled, and the foundation of a lasting happiness laid, their hopes were quickly blasted. So much are men often mistaken in their judgments about the designs of God’s providence.

Nehemiah 6:4

The house - Against the house of the king of Assyria, between whom and me there is war. It is at thy peril, if thou engage against one who has both a better army, and a better cause and God on his side.

Nehemiah 6:5

Hearkened not - How can we think to prosper in our ways, if we do not acknowledge God in them!

Nehemiah 6:8

To this day - In all their succeeding lamentations for their publick calamities, they remembered Josiah’s death as their first and fatal blow, which opened the flood - gates to all their following miseries.

Nehemiah 6:19

Found in him - That crime of rebellion against the king of Babylon, which for a time he kept in his own breast, but when he saw fit, discovered it, and was convicted of it.