Nehemiah 9:29-31

29 “You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.’ Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.

30 For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

31 But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

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Nehemiah 9:29-31 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. S Judges 6:8
2. ver 16-17; Psalms 5:5; Isaiah 2:11; Jeremiah 43:2
3. S Deuteronomy 30:16
4. S 1 Samuel 8:3
5. Jeremiah 19:15
6. Zechariah 7:11-12
7. 2 Kings 17:13-18; S 2 Chronicles 36:16
8. Jeremiah 16:11; Zechariah 7:12
9. Isaiah 48:9; Isaiah 65:9; Jeremiah 4:27
10. S Deuteronomy 4:31

Nehemiah 9:29-31

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Nehemiah 9:29-31 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 9

Cross References 10