Nehemiah 9:8-12

8 You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.

9 “You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt; you heard their cry at the Red Sea.^[a]

10 You sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name for yourself, which remains to this day.

11 You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.

12 By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

Nehemiah 9:8-12 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 Genesis 15:18-21; S Ezra 9:1
• 2. S Joshua 21:45
• 3. Genesis 15:6; S Ezra 9:15
• 4. Exodus 2:23-25; Exodus 3:7
• 5. Exodus 14:10-30
• 6. S Exodus 10:1; Psalms 74:9
• 7. S Exodus 3:20; S Exodus 6:6
• 8. Jeremiah 32:20; Daniel 9:15
• 9. S Numbers 6:27
• 10. Exodus 14:21; Psalms 78:13
• 11. S Exodus 14:28
• 12. Ex 15:4-5,10; Hebrews 11:29
• 13. S Deuteronomy 1:33
• 14. S Exodus 15:13
• 15. S Exodus 13:21

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "the Sea of Reeds"