John Gill's Exposition on Nehemiah 1:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them, etc.] Return by repentance, and, as a proof of the genuineness of it, yield obedience to the commands of God, and continue therein: though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven; that is, the uttermost parts of the earth, the most distant regions; so called, because at the extreme parts of the horizon, according to our apprehension, the heavens and earth touch each other; so that what is the uttermost part of the one is supposed to be of the other: yet will I gather them from thence and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there; that is to Jerusalem where the temple was built, and his name was called upon.

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