In whose reign and court did Nehemiah live, and what was his office? ch. 2.1. This Artaxerxes was the same person who gave to Ezra the excellent commission recited in that book ch. 7.
What melancholy information did he receive from his brother and how was he affected by it? v. 2—4.
What confessions and petitions are embraced in this prayer? 1 v. 5—11.
What ancient promise did he plead? Deut. 30.4.
What is ever the first duty of those who are projecting designs of public utility?
Are those whom God has raised to high and comfortable stations in the world still bound to "remember the afflictions of Joseph?" 1 Cor. 12.26.
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