Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 9:32

32. Now there ore our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy : let not all the trouble seem little before thee that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests▪ and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people since the time of the kings of Assyria , unto this day.

i. e. Covenanted mercy or thy covenant of mercy and peace▪ Or he adds mercy, because the covenant in its self was not a sufficient ground of hope, because they having so basely broken it, God was discharged from keeping it, and therefore they fly to Gods free and rich mercy for relief.

Do not thou account it small and insufficient for our punishment, and that it is fit to continue and encrease it.

Strictly and properly so called; for from them was the beginning of all the calamities both of Iudah and of Israel, as appears, from 2. Kings 15. 19. and 18. 13. Or, the kings of Babylon, so called, a Chron. 33. 11.

Marginal references: Exod. 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 6, 7.; Heb. weariness.; Heb. that hath found us.