Nehemiah 9:22-26

22 “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon^[a] king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.

23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

24 Their children went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased.

25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.

26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9:22-26 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 Numbers 21:21
• 2. S Numbers 21:33; Dt 2:26-3:11
• 3. S Genesis 12:2; S Leviticus 26:9; S Numbers 10:36
• 4. S Joshua 11:23
• 5. S Judges 4:23; S 2 Chronicles 14:13
• 6. S Deuteronomy 11:11
• 7. S Exodus 18:9
• 8. Deuteronomy 6:10-12
• 9. Numbers 13:27; Deuteronomy 8:8-11; Deuteronomy 32:12-15; Psalms 23:6; Psalms 25:7; Psalms 69:16
• 10. S 1 Kings 14:9; Jeremiah 44:10
• 11. S Joshua 7:25
• 12. Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 26:8; Matthew 21:35-36; Matthew 23:29-36; Acts 7:52
• 13. S Judges 2:12-13

Footnotes

• [a]. One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts "Sihon, that is, the country of the"