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Nehemiah 9:33-38

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33 In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.
34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our ancestors did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the statutes you warned them to keep.
35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.
36 “But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.
37 Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.
38 “In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it.”[a]
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Nehemiah 9:33-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 9

In this chapter we have an account of a fast kept by the Jews, which was observed, as by outward acts of humiliation, so by confession of sin, reading the law, and worshipping the Lord, Ne 9:1-3 and of a long prayer that the Levites made, in which they celebrate the divine perfections, take notice of various instances of the goodness of God to the people of Israel, acknowledge their manifold transgressions, observe the Lord's correction of them for them, in which they own he was righteous, Ne 9:4-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

  • 1. S Genesis 18:25
  • 2. Jeremiah 44:3; Da 9:7-8,14
  • 3. S 2 Kings 23:11
  • 4. Jeremiah 44:17
  • 5. Isaiah 63:7
  • 6. Deuteronomy 28:45-48
  • 7. Deuteronomy 28:48; S Ezra 9:9
  • 8. Deuteronomy 28:33; Lamentations 5:5
  • 9. S 2 Chronicles 23:16
  • 10. Isaiah 44:5

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. In Hebrew texts this verse (9:38) is numbered 10:1.
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