Excerpt from The Old and New Testaments Connected, Vol. 2 of 3: In the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations, From the Declensions of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ
And it was at such a time that he asked the government of Judea, and obtained it.e And by the like advantages of his place, no doubt, it was, that he gained those immense riches which enabled him for so many years, out of his own private purse only, to live in his government with that splendour and expense, as will be hereafter related, without burdening the people at all for it. And no doubt it was by the favour of queen Esther, as being of the same nation and people with her, that he obtained so honourable and advantageous a preferment in that court. However, neither the honour and advantage of this place, nor the long settlement of his family out of his country, could make him forget his love for it, or lay aside that zeal which he had foi the religion of his forefathers, who had formerly dwelt in it. For though he had been born and bred in a strange land, yet he had a great love for Sion, and an heart thoroughly set for the advancing of the prosperity of it, and was in all things a very religious observer of the law of his God. And therefore when some came from Jerusalem, and told him of the ill state of that city, how the walls of it were still in many places broken down, and the gates of it in the same demolished state as when burned with fire by the Babylonians, and that, by reason hereof, the remnant of the captivity that dwelt there lay open, not only to the incursions and insults of their enemies, but also to the reproach and contempt of their neighbours, as a weak and despicable people; and that they were in both these respects in great affliction and grief of heart; the good man, being suitably moved with this representation, applied himself to fasting and prayer unto the Lord his God, and earnestly supplicated to him for his people of Israel, and the place which he had chosen for his worship among them.
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