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Nehemiah 9:18-21

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18 "Even when they 1made for themselves A calf of molten metal And said, 'This is your God Who brought you up from Egypt,' And committed great blasphemies,
19 2You, in Your great compassion, Did not forsake them in the wilderness; 3The pillar of cloud did not leave * * them by day, To guide them on their way, Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.
20 "4You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth, And You gave them water for their thirst.
21 "Indeed, 5forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not in want; Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell.
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Nehemiah 9:18-21 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

Cross References 5

  • 1. Ex 32:4-8, 31
  • 2. Deuteronomy 8:2-4; Nehemiah 9:27, 31
  • 3. Nehemiah 9:12
  • 4. Numbers 11:17; Nehemiah 9:30; Isaiah 63:11-14
  • 5. Deuteronomy 2:7

Footnotes 1

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