Nehemiah 9:35 - Exposition

They have not served thee in their kingdom . There is no need of altering the reading here. "In their kingdom" means, "while they had a kingdom of their own, and were not subjects, as now, to a foreign power." Thy great goodness . See above, Nehemiah 9:25 . The large and fat land . Compare Exodus 3:8 . Although the limits of Palestine are narrow, yet the land which God flare to his people, extending as it did from the Euphrates to the river of Egypt ( Genesis 15:18 ), might well he termed a "large" or "broad" land.