Nehemiah 9:26-28

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.

28 “But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.

Nehemiah 9:26-28 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.

Cross References

• 1. S 1 Kings 14:9; Jeremiah 44:10
• 2. S Joshua 7:25
• 3. Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 26:8; Matthew 21:35-36; Matthew 23:29-36; Acts 7:52
• 4. S Judges 2:12-13
• 5. S Numbers 25:17; S Judges 2:14
• 6. Psalms 51:1; Psalms 103:8; Psalms 106:45; Psalms 119:156
• 7. S Judges 3:9
• 8. S Exodus 32:22; S Judges 2:17
• 9. S 2 Samuel 24:14
• 10. Psalms 22:4; Psalms 106:43; Psalms 136:24