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King James Version (KJV)
“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
Scripture focus
Now therefore, 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.
Nehemiah 9:32 — KJV
The terrible God. Similar phraseology appears in Deuteronomy 10:17 and Nehemiah 1:5. To those who reject His mercy God appears as Judge (see Revelation 6:14-17).
Who keepest covenant. This thought occurs also in Psalm 89:28 and Nehemiah 1:5.
The kings of Assyria. Shalmaneser III of Assyria — not mentioned in the Bible — records that he defeated Ahab, and forced Jehu to pay tribute to him and kneel before him. Tiglath-pileser III (called Pul in Babylonia) took tribute from Menahem (2 Kings 15:19, 20), and carried two and a half tribes into captivity (2 Kings 15:29; 1 Chronicles 5:26). A third Assyrian king, Shalmaneser V, laid siege to Samaria (2 Kings 17:5-23) and most probably took it just before his death. A fourth, Senacherib, took all the fenced cities of Judah from Hezekiah and forced him to redeem Jerusalem by paying a great ransom (2 Kings 18:13-16). Another Assyrian king, either Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, took Manasseh as a prisoner to Babylon (2 Chronicles 33:11). This was the last Assyrian expedition into Judah. The Lord, through Isaiah, called the Assyrian monarch “the rod of mine anger” (Isaiah 10:5). For these contacts between Assyrian kings and the Hebrews, see Vol. II, pp. 159, 160.
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