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Nehemiah 9:6-16

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6 "1You alone are the LORD. 2You have made the heavens, The heaven of heavens with all their host, The earth and all that is on it, The seas and all that is in them. 3You give life to all of them And the heavenly host bows down before You.
7 "You are the LORD God, 4Who chose Abram And brought him out from 5Ur of the Chaldees, And 6gave him the name Abraham.
8 "You found 7his heart faithful before You, And made a covenant with him To give him the land of the Canaanite, Of the Hittite and the Amorite, Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite - To give it to his descendants. And You 8have fulfilled Your promise, For You are righteous.
9 "9You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, And 10heard their cry by the Red * Sea.
10 "Then You performed 11signs and wonders against Pharaoh, Against all his servants and all the people of his land; For You knew that 12they acted arrogantly toward them, And 13made a name for Yourself as it is this day.
11 "14You divided the sea before them, So they passed through the midst of the sea on dry ground; And 15their pursuers You hurled into the depths, Like a stone into raging waters.
12 "And with a pillar of cloud 16You led them by day, And with a pillar of fire by night To light for them the way In which they were to go.
13 "Then 17You came down on Mount Sinai, And 18spoke with them from heaven; You gave them 19just ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and commandments.
14 "So You made known to them 20Your holy sabbath, And laid down for them commandments, statutes and law, Through Your servant Moses.
15 "You 21provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger, You 22brought forth water from a rock for them for their thirst, And You 23told them to enter in order to possess The land which You swore * to give them.
16 "But they, our fathers, 24acted arrogantly; They 25became * stubborn * and would not listen to Your commandments.
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Nehemiah 9:6-16 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 25

Footnotes 5

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