Nehemiah 9:28-30

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.

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.

Nehemiah 9:28-30 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 Exodus 32:22; S Judges 2:17
• 2. S 2 Samuel 24:14
• 3. Psalms 22:4; Psalms 106:43; Psalms 136:24
• 4. S Judges 6:8
• 5. ver 16-17; Psalms 5:5; Isaiah 2:11; Jeremiah 43:2
• 6. S Deuteronomy 30:16
• 7. S 1 Samuel 8:3
• 8. Jeremiah 19:15
• 9. Zechariah 7:11-12
• 10. 2 Kings 17:13-18; S 2 Chronicles 36:16
• 11. Jeremiah 16:11; Zechariah 7:12