Geneva Bible Notes: Nehemiah 2

Nehemiah 2:1 (b) Who is also called Darius: read {Ezr. 7,2}

Nehemiah 2:1 (a) Which was the first moneth of the yere & conteineth part of Marche & part of April.

Nehemiah 2:1 (!) After Nehemiah had obteined letters of Artaxerxes.

Nehemiah 2:4 (c) I desired God in mine heart to prosper mine enterprise.

Nehemiah 2:7 (/) Or, Euphrates.

Nehemiah 2:8 (/) Or, paradise.

Nehemiah 2:8 (d) As God moued me to aske, & as he gaue me good successe therein.

Nehemiah 2:10 (e) These were great enemies to the Jews & labored alwaies bothe by force & subtiltie to ouer come them, & Tobiah because his wife was a Jewesse, had aduertisement euer of their affaires and so wroght them great trouble.

Nehemiah 2:11 (!) He came to Jerusalem

Nehemiah 2:14 (/) Or, conduit

Nehemiah 2:17 (!) And buylded the walles.

Nehemiah 2:17 (f) That is, contemned of ther nations, as thogh God has forsaken vs.

Nehemiah 2:18 (g) They were incouraged & gaue them selues to do wel, & to trauel in this worthy enterprise.

Nehemiah 2:19 (h) These were thre chief gouerners vnder the King of Persia beyonde Euphrates.

Nehemiah 2:19 (i) Thus the wicked when thei wil burthen the children of God, wuer lay treason vnto their charge, bothe because it maketh them moste odious to the worlde, & also stirreth the hatred of princes moste against them.

Nehemiah 2:20 (k) Nether ye are of the nomber of the children of God (to whome he hathe appointed this citie onely) nether did anie of your predecessours euer feare God.