Nehemiah 2

2. We grieve when God's church is brought low, because now God's name suffers. Nehemiah lays to heart the miseries of Zion, his complexion begins to alter, and he looks sad (Nehemiah 2:3): Why is your countenance sad? What, sad when the king's cupbearer, and wine so near?

2. Vocal (Psalm 77:1). 3. Ejaculatory, which is a sudden and short elevation of the heart to God (Nehemiah 2:4). So I prayed to the God of Heaven.

First, he grieves to see it go ill with the church. Nehemiah, though the king's cup-bearer, and wine so near, yet was sad when Zion's glory was eclipsed (Nehemiah 2:3). Like the tree I have read of, if any of the leaves are cut, the rest of the leaves begin to shrink up themselv…

I confess most men rather need the spur than the reins in this case, and yet some sit down as overwhelmed with the sense of the church's troubles. The loss of the ark cost old Eli his life; the sad posture Jerusalem lay in made good Nehemiah's countenance change in the midst of…

The Samaritans of this time, who serve the Lord, and serve their own Gods too, and do after the manners of idolaters, have professed (as they of old to the Jews, Ezra 4:2) that they would build with you, that they will be for the true Protestant Religion as you are, that they wi…

It has been the practice of holy men. Nehemiah first petitioned God before he would use his interest in the king's favor (Nehemiah 2:4). Then the king said to me, for what do you make request?

Eighthly, assurance should be managed with cheerfulness of heart: assured Christians should be cheerful Christians. We read Nehemiah 2:1-2, that Nehemiah all the while he was before the face of the King, and in the presence of the King, the text says, Nehemiah for a long time wa…

And this night fell in directly upon the expiration of the 430 years before limited, verse 40, 41. For the time of the year, it was in the month [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] Abib, as the Hebrews call the month of the spring, which in those Eastern parts gave blades to the corn, a…

The children of Israel arose and went to the house of the Lord, that is, they went presently up to the house of the Lord, (2 Samuel 14:31). Then Joab arose and went to Absalom, the meaning is only this, that upon the receiving of that message, he went with speed, he made no dela…

Moses could not do so, though in the greatest security, and abundance of the honors and pleasures of Egypt (Acts 7:23). Nehemiah could not do so, though the servant and favorite of a mighty monarch, and wanting nothing to make him outwardly happy: yet the pleasures of a king's c…

Christ's earnestness in prayer struck him into an agony, and caused his sweat to be turned into blood (Luke 22:44). Nehemiah's ardency so changed his countenance, as the King observed it (Nehemiah 2:2). 2. Unusual motion of the parts of a man's body: Hannah so moved her lips, as…