Nehemiah 9:17-27

17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,

18 even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.

19 “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.

20 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst.

21 For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.

22 “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon^[a] king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.

23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

24 Their children went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased.

25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.

26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.

27 So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

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Nehemiah 9:17-27 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

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1. Judges 8:34; Psalms 78:42
2. Psalms 77:11; Psalms 78:12; Psalms 105:5; Psalms 106:7
3. Jeremiah 7:26; Jeremiah 19:15
4. Numbers 14:1-4
5. Psalms 130:4; Daniel 9:9
6. S Deuteronomy 4:31
7. S Exodus 34:6; Psalms 103:8; Nahum 1:3
8. S Exodus 22:27; Numbers 14:17-19; Psalms 86:15
9. Psalms 78:11; Ezekiel 5:6
10. S Exodus 32:4
11. S Exodus 20:23
12. Exodus 13:22
13. S Exodus 13:21
14. Numbers 9:17; Numbers 11:17; Isaiah 63:11,14; Haggai 2:5; Zechariah 4:6
15. Psalms 23:3; Psalms 143:10
16. S Exodus 16:15
17. Exodus 17:6
18. S Exodus 16:35
19. S Deuteronomy 2:7
20. S Deuteronomy 8:4
21. S Numbers 21:21
22. S Numbers 21:33; Dt 2:26-3:11
23. S Genesis 12:2; S Leviticus 26:9; S Numbers 10:36
24. S Joshua 11:23
25. S Judges 4:23; S 2 Chronicles 14:13
26. S Deuteronomy 11:11
27. S Exodus 18:9
28. Deuteronomy 6:10-12
29. Numbers 13:27; Deuteronomy 8:8-11; Deuteronomy 32:12-15; Psalms 23:6; Psalms 25:7; Psalms 69:16
30. S 1 Kings 14:9; Jeremiah 44:10
31. S Joshua 7:25
32. Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 26:8; Matthew 21:35-36; Matthew 23:29-36; Acts 7:52
33. S Judges 2:12-13
34. S Numbers 25:17; S Judges 2:14
35. Psalms 51:1; Psalms 103:8; Psalms 106:45; Psalms 119:156
36. S Judges 3:9

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[a]. One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts "Sihon, that is, the country of the"

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