Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 2:3
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Nehemiah2:3
3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever ? why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers sepulchers , lieth wast, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire.
My sadness comes not from any discontent with my own condition or any disaffection to the King, for whom my hearty Prayers are that he may live for ever, but from another cause.
Which by all Nations are esteemed sacred and inviolable and honourable. He saith not a word of the Temple or of Religion, for he wisely considered that he spake before a heathen King and Court who cared for none of those things.
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