Nehemiah 9:30-38

30 "¹However, You bore with them for many years, And ²admonished them by ³Your Spirit through Your prophets, Yet they would not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

31 "Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You ⁴did not make an end of them or forsake them, For You are ⁵a gracious and compassionate God.

32 "Now therefore, our God, ⁶the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness, Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You, Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, ⁷From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

33 "However, ⁸You are just in all that has come upon us; For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

34 "For our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers have not kept Your law Or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with which You have admonished them.

35 "But ⁹they, in their own kingdom, ¹⁰With Your great goodness which You gave them, With the broad and rich land which You set before them, Did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds.

36 "Behold, ¹¹we are slaves today, And as to the land which You gave to our fathers to eat of its fruit and its bounty, Behold, we are slaves in it.

37 "¹²Its abundant produce is for the kings Whom You have set over us because of our sins; They also rule over our bodies And over our cattle as they please, So we are in great distress.

A Covenant Results

38 "Now because of all this ¹³We are making an agreement in writing; And on the ¹⁴sealed document are the names of our leaders, our Levites and our priests."

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Nehemiah 9:30-38 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 14

1. Psalms 95:10; Acts 13:18
2. 2 Kings 17:13-18; 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16; Nehemiah 9:26, 29
3. Nehemiah 9:20
4. Jeremiah 4:27
5. Nehemiah 9:17
6. Nehemiah 1:5
7. 2 Kings 15:19, 29; 2 Kings 17:3-6; Ezra 4:2, 10
8. Genesis 18:25; Jeremiah 12:1
9. Deuteronomy 28:47
10. Nehemiah 9:25
11. Deuteronomy 28:48
12. Deuteronomy 28:33
13. Nehemiah 10:29
14. Nehemiah 10:1

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "testimonies"
[b]. Or "witnessed"
[c]. Ch 10:1 in Heb