These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Nehemiah 9
Tanakh 38 verses
- 1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.
- 2 And the seed of separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
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And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the Law of their a fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and prostrated themselves before their .
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- 4 Then stood up upon the platform of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto their .
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Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said: ‘Stand up and your from to ; and let them say: Blessed be Thy glorious Name, that is exalted above all and .
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1 Chronicles 29:13 Ezra 3:11 1 Peter 1:3 Psalm 72:18-19 Psalm 117:1-2 Matthew 11:25 Psalm 103:1-2 Psalm 16:2 Psalm 145:11-12 Psalm 145:5 2 Corinthians 4:6 1 Chronicles 29:20 1 Kings 8:27 Psalm 106:2 2 Chronicles 20:19 Exodus 15:6 Psalm 134:1 Jeremiah 33:10-11 Exodus 15:11 2 Chronicles 20:13 Psalm 145:2 Deuteronomy 28:58 1 Chronicles 29:11 Psalm 146:2 1 Kings 8:14 1 Kings 8:22 Ephesians 3:20-21 -
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Thou art , even Thou alone; Thou hast made , the of , with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and Thou preservest them all; and the host of worshippeth Thee.
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Genesis 1:1 2 Kings 19:15 Deuteronomy 10:14 Genesis 2:1 Isaiah 37:16 Deuteronomy 6:4 Isaiah 44:6 Isaiah 44:8 Isaiah 43:10 Psalm 36:6 Jeremiah 10:11-12 Hebrews 1:3 Psalm 103:21 Ezekiel 20:11 Psalm 136:5-9 Genesis 32:2 John 10:30 Psalm 146:6 1 Kings 22:19 Isaiah 37:20 Psalm 86:10 Isaiah 6:2-3 Revelation 5:11-13 1 Kings 8:27 Psalm 33:6 Colossians 1:15-17 Revelation 4:11 2 Kings 19:19 Psalm 148:2-4 Mark 12:29-30 Revelation 14:7 Hebrews 1:6 -
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Thou art the , who didst choose , and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the of ;
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and foundest his faithful before Thee, and madest a with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, even to give it unto his seed, and hast performed Thy words; for Thou art righteous;
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Genesis 15:6 Genesis 15:18-21 Joshua 21:43-45 Genesis 17:7-8 Hebrews 6:18 Genesis 12:7 Joshua 23:14 Psalm 105:43-44 Titus 1:2 Genesis 12:1-3 Joshua 11:3 Deuteronomy 9:5 Deuteronomy 7:1 Joshua 11:23 Acts 13:22 Genesis 22:12 Deuteronomy 26:3 Psalm 105:8-9 Luke 1:72-73 Psalm 92:14-15 1 John 1:9 Numbers 23:19 1 Timothy 1:12-13 Exodus 3:17 Joshua 9:1 James 2:21-23 Exodus 3:8 Deuteronomy 7:8-9 Genesis 22:16-18 Hebrews 11:17 -
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And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in , and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;
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and didst show signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land; for Thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them; and didst get Thee a , as it is this day.
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Jeremiah 32:20 Daniel 9:15 Exodus 14:1-31 Deuteronomy 4:34 Isaiah 63:12 Exodus 5:2 Exodus 18:11 Isaiah 63:14 Deuteronomy 11:3-4 Psalm 106:7-11 Psalm 135:8-9 Psalm 78:12-13 Job 40:11-12 Exodus 5:7-8 Acts 7:36 Psalm 105:27-37 Ezekiel 20:9 Psalm 83:18 Daniel 5:23 Psalm 78:43-53 1 Peter 5:5 Joshua 2:10-11 Psalm 136:10-15 Exodus 7:1 Romans 9:17 Daniel 4:37 - 11 And Thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers Thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
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Moreover in a pillar of cloud Thou didst lead them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
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Thou camest down also upon mount , and spokest with them from , and gavest them right ordinances and laws of , good statutes and commandments;
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Exodus 20:1 Exodus 19:11 Psalm 119:160 Psalm 119:127-128 Deuteronomy 5:22-26 Deuteronomy 4:33 Habakkuk 3:3 Hebrews 12:18-26 Romans 7:16 Deuteronomy 5:4 Deuteronomy 4:8 Psalm 119:137 Deuteronomy 10:12-13 Isaiah 64:3 Deuteronomy 33:2 Exodus 20:22 Isaiah 64:1 Exodus 19:16-20 Ezekiel 20:11-13 Deuteronomy 4:10-13 Romans 7:12-14 Psalm 19:7-11 - 14 and madest known unto them Thy , and didst command them commandments, and statutes, and a , by the hand of Thy ;
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and gavest them bread from for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst command them that they should go in to possess the land which Thou hadst lifted up Thy hand to give them.
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But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to Thy commandments,
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Nehemiah 9:10 Nehemiah 9:29 Psalm 81:11-14 Deuteronomy 31:27 Psalm 81:8 Deuteronomy 9:6 Deuteronomy 9:13 Exodus 15:26 Hebrews 3:15 Deuteronomy 32:15 Exodus 32:9 Acts 7:51 Psalm 78:8-72 Jeremiah 2:31 2 Kings 17:14 Proverbs 29:1 2 Chronicles 36:13 Romans 2:5 Hebrews 3:13 Isaiah 63:10 Deuteronomy 5:29 Isaiah 48:4 Jeremiah 19:15 Isaiah 48:18 Psalm 106:6 Deuteronomy 1:26-33 Deuteronomy 9:27 2 Chronicles 30:8 Deuteronomy 9:23-24 Psalm 95:8-10 -
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and refused to hearken, neither were mindful of Thy wonders that Thou didst among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage; but Thou art a ready to pardon, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in , and forsookest them not.
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Psalm 86:5 Psalm 86:15 Psalm 78:11 Psalm 78:42-43 Joel 2:13 Numbers 14:3-4 Psalm 106:43-46 Psalm 145:8-9 Psalm 130:4 Proverbs 1:24 Micah 7:18-19 2 Peter 1:12-15 Psalm 103:8-18 Psalm 106:13 Acts 7:39 Psalm 106:7 Exodus 34:6-7 1 Kings 8:57 Isaiah 55:7-9 Romans 9:15 Hebrews 12:25 Ephesians 1:6-7 Numbers 14:18-19 Numbers 14:11 Numbers 14:41 Psalm 106:24-25 Matthew 16:9-11 1 Kings 6:13 Numbers 16:14 Psalm 78:38 -
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Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said: ‘This is thy that brought thee up out of , and had wrought great provocations;
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- 19 yet Thou in Thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.
- 20 Thou gavest also Thy good to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
- 21 Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- 22 Moreover Thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which Thou didst allot quarter by quarter; so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the of Heshbon, and the land of Og of .
- 23 Their children also didst Thou multiply as the stars of , and didst bring them into the land, concerning which Thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
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So the children went in and possessed the land, and Thou didst subdue before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
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- 25 And they took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit-trees in abundance; so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and luxuriated in Thy great goodness.
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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy behind their back, and slew Thy prophets that did forewarn them to turn them back unto Thee, and they wrought great provocations.
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1 Kings 14:9 Nehemiah 9:18 Judges 2:11-12 1 Kings 18:4 1 Kings 19:10 2 Chronicles 36:16 Matthew 21:35 Acts 7:52 2 Chronicles 24:20-21 Psalm 50:17 Ezekiel 20:21 Psalm 78:56-57 Ezekiel 16:15-63 Judges 10:6 Ezekiel 33:3-5 2 Kings 21:11 Judges 10:13-14 1 Kings 18:13 Judges 3:6-7 Ezekiel 23:4-49 Jeremiah 26:20-23 Ezekiel 22:25-31 Matthew 23:34-37 Psalm 106:34-40 Nehemiah 9:30 - 27 Therefore Thou didst deliver them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them; and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto Thee, Thou heardest from ; and according to Thy manifold mercies Thou gavest them saviours who might them out of the hand of their adversaries.
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But after they had rest, they did evil again before Thee; therefore didst Thou leave them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried unto Thee, many times didst Thou from , and deliver them according to Thy mercies;
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and didst forewarn them, that Thou mightest bring them back unto Thy ; yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto Thy commandments, but sinned against Thine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them, and presented a stubborn shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not .
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Nehemiah 9:16 Leviticus 18:5 Nehemiah 9:26 Nehemiah 9:10 Zechariah 7:11-12 Jeremiah 43:2 Deuteronomy 4:26 Jeremiah 17:23 2 Chronicles 36:15 Jeremiah 44:16-17 Deuteronomy 31:21 Romans 10:5 Daniel 5:20 2 Chronicles 24:19 Jeremiah 44:10 Ezekiel 20:11 Galatians 3:12 Hosea 6:5 Jeremiah 19:15 James 4:6-10 Exodus 10:3 Jeremiah 7:26 Luke 10:28 Jeremiah 13:15-17 2 Kings 17:13 Jeremiah 25:3-7 -
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Yet many years didst Thou extend unto them, and didst forewarn them by Thy through Thy prophets; yet would they not give ear; therefore gavest Thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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Isaiah 42:24 Acts 7:51 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Nehemiah 9:26 Zechariah 7:13 Isaiah 63:10 2 Kings 17:13-18 Lamentations 2:17 2 Peter 1:21 Isaiah 5:5-6 1 Peter 1:11 Nehemiah 9:29 Acts 13:18 Romans 2:4 Jeremiah 44:22 Acts 28:25 Jeremiah 7:25 Jeremiah 25:4 Nehemiah 9:20 Jeremiah 40:2-3 Psalm 86:15 2 Peter 3:9 - 31 Nevertheless in Thy manifold mercies Thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for Thou art a gracious and merciful .
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Now therefore, our , the great, the mighty, and the awful , who keepest and , let not all the travail seem little before Thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all Thy people, since the time of the kings of unto this day.
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2 Kings 17:3 Nehemiah 1:5 2 Kings 15:29 2 Kings 15:19 Deuteronomy 7:21 Deuteronomy 7:9 Isaiah 7:17-18 1 Kings 8:23 Daniel 9:4 Leviticus 26:28 Psalm 66:3 Jeremiah 22:18-19 2 Kings 25:25-26 2 Chronicles 36:1-23 Isaiah 10:5-7 2 Kings 25:18-21 Jeremiah 8:1-3 Micah 7:18-20 Daniel 9:6 Leviticus 26:18 2 Kings 25:7 Psalm 66:5 Jeremiah 34:19-22 2 Kings 23:29 Isaiah 8:7-8 Isaiah 36:1-22 Leviticus 26:24 Jeremiah 52:1-34 Jeremiah 39:1-18 Daniel 9:8 Psalm 47:2 Leviticus 26:21 2 Kings 23:33-34 Ezra 9:13 - 33 Howbeit Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for Thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;
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neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept Thy , nor hearkened unto Thy commandments and Thy testimonies, wherewith Thou didst testify against them.
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- 35 For they have not served Thee in their , and in Thy great goodness that Thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which Thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
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Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that Thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.
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- 37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom Thou hast set over us because of our sins; also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.’
- 38 And yet for all this we make a sure , and subscribe it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal unto it.