Nehemiah 9:18
Nehemiah 9:2
descent <02233> [the seed.]
foreigners <01121> [strangers. Heb. strange children.]
confessing <03034> [confessed.]
Nehemiah 1:11
listen <0241> [Let now.]
take pleasure <02655> [who desire.]
show <05414> [grant.]
king <04428> [For I was.]
The office of cup-bearer was one of great trust, honour, and emolument, in the Persian court. To be in such a place of trust he must have been in the king's confidence; for no eastern potentate would have a cup-bearer to whom he could not trust his life, poison being often administered in that way. It was an office much desired, because it gave access to the king in those seasons of hilarity when men are most disposed to grant favours.
Ezekiel 22:25-31
princes <07195> [a conspiracy.]
roaring <07580> [like.]
tearing <02963> [ravening.]
That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.
devoured <0398> [they have devoured.]
priests <03548> [priests.]
abuse <02554> [violated. Heb. offered violence to. profaned.]
distinguish <0914> [put no.]
ignore <05956 05869> [hid their.]
desecrated ................................ profaned <02490> [I am profaned.]
officials <08269> [princes.]
get dishonest <01214> [to get.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.
see <02374> [seeing.]
saying ...... sovereign ... says <0559 0136> [Thus saith the Lord.]
people <05971> [people.]
practiced extortion .............. oppressed <06231> [oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.]
justice <04941> [wrongfully. Heb. without right.]
looked <01245> [I sought.]
God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.
repair <01443> [make.]
poured <08210> [have I poured.]
hereby <01870> [their own.]
