Nehemiah 1:8

8 Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, 'If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations.

Nehemiah 1:8 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 1:8

Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy
servant Moses
To publish and declare to the children of Israel, ( Deuteronomy 28:64 ) ( 30:3-5 ) ,

saying, if ye transgress;
the law of God:

I will scatter you abroad among the nations;
as now they had been among the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Medes, and Persians.

Nehemiah 1:8 In-Context

6 Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the {Israelites}, and confessing the sins of the {Israelites} that we have sinned against you. I and my father's house have sinned.

7 We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses.

8 Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, 'If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations.

9 But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, even though all of your outcasts are at the furthest parts of heaven, I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen to make my name dwell.'

10 They are your servants and your people whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.