Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 9:30

30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them , and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets : yet would they not give ear : therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

i. e. Thou didst delay to bring upon them these judgments which thou hadst threatned and they had deserved, and didst wait for their repentance.

By thy prophets who spake to them by the inspiration of thy holy Spirit, whom therefore they should have obeyed.

i. e. Would not obey, them nor would they vouchsafe so much as to hear them.

Marginal references: Heb. protract over them.; 2 Kin. 17. 13.; Heb. in the hand of thy prophets.; 2 Chr. 36. 15.