Nehemiah 9:25
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| Overview - Nehemiah 9 | |
| 1 | A solemn fast, and repentance of the people. |
| 4 | The Levites make a religious confession of God's goodness, and their wickedness. |
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Nehemiah 9:25 (King James Version)
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
- strong
- Numbers 13:27 Numbers 13:28 ; Deuteronomy 3:5 ; 6:10-12 9:1-3
- a fat land
- 35 ; Deuteronomy 8:7-10 ; 32:13 Ezekiel 20:6
- wells
- or, cisterns. fruit trees. Hebrew trees of food. did
- eat.
- Deuteronomy 32:15 ; Psalms 65:11 ; Isaiah 6:10 ; Jeremiah 5:27 Jeremiah 5:28 ; Hosea 13:6
- and became fat
- They became effeminate, fell under the power of luxury, got totally corrupted in their manners, sinned against all the mercies of God, and then were destroyed by His judgments.* delighted. 1Ki 8:66 Jer 31:14 Ho 3:5 Ro 2:4