Wesley Corpus

All that professed the Jewish religion, were to be under the jurisdiction of these judges. Let judgment - What could David himself, as king, have done more, for the honour of God, and the furtherance of religion Blessed, &c. - Ezra cannot proceed in his story, without inserting this thankful acknowledgment of God's goodness to him and the people. As the hand, &c. - If God gives us his hand, we are bold and chearful: if he withdraws it, we are weak as water. Whatever service we are enabled to do for God and our generation, God must have all the glory of it.