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 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…