Nehemiah - 7:4 Meaning
“Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
7:1-4 Nehemiah, having finished the wall, returned to the Persian court, and came to Jerusalem again with a new commission. The public safety depends on every one's care to guard himself and his family against sin.
“Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?”
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