Nehemiah 9:13-17

13 “You came down on Mount Sinai; you spoke to them from heaven. You gave them regulations and laws that are just and right, and decrees and commands that are good.

14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.

15 In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock; you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand to give them.

16 “But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands.

17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,

Nehemiah 9:13-17 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 19:11
• 2. S Exodus 19:19
• 3. S Exodus 20:22
• 4. Psalms 119:137
• 5. S Exodus 20:1; Deuteronomy 4:7-8
• 6. S Genesis 2:3; Exodus 20:8-11
• 7. S Exodus 16:4; Psalms 78:24-25; John 6:31
• 8. Exodus 17:6; Numbers 20:7-13
• 9. S Genesis 14:22
• 10. Deuteronomy 1:8,21
• 11. S Exodus 32:9; Jeremiah 7:26; Jeremiah 17:23; Jeremiah 19:15
• 12. Deuteronomy 1:26-33; Deuteronomy 31:29
• 13. Judges 8:34; Psalms 78:42
• 14. Psalms 77:11; Psalms 78:12; Psalms 105:5; Psalms 106:7
• 15. Jeremiah 7:26; Jeremiah 19:15
• 16. Numbers 14:1-4
• 17. Psalms 130:4; Daniel 9:9
• 18. S Deuteronomy 4:31
• 19. S Exodus 34:6; Psalms 103:8; Nahum 1:3
• 20. S Exodus 22:27; Numbers 14:17-19; Psalms 86:15
• 21. Psalms 78:11; Ezekiel 5:6