1105
A.D.
Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“that you send me that you grant me permission to ascend to Jerusalem and build it.”
The interpretation timeline
Nehemiah 2:5
Douay-Rheims
And I said to the king: If it seem good to the king, and if thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldst send me into Judea to the city of the sepulchre of my father, and I will build it.
1105 – 1832 4 witnesses
Scholastic
c. 1100 – 1500
666 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill
Reformed
1697–1771
“And I said unto the king; if it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight,.... He submits what he had to say wholly to the pleasure of the king, and puts it upon his unmerited favour, and not on any desert of his own: that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it; the wall of it, and the houses in it; the favour was, that he might have leave to go thither, and set about such a work, for which he was so much concerned.”
1832
A.D.
Adam Clarke
Methodist
1762–1832
“The city of my fathers' sepulchres - The tombs of the dead were sacred among the ancients, and nothing could appear to them more detestable than disturbing the ashes or remains of the dead. Nehemiah knew that in mentioning this circumstance he should strongly interest the feelings of the Persian king.”
Undated
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Glossa Ordinaria
Medieval
“If it seem good, etc. Just as by Cyrus the first king of the Persians Christ is signified, etc., up to concerning which I have taken care to expound the prophet's whole sentence most fully, as I was able, in the book of times.”
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.