Verse 38

Nehemiah 9:38

American Standard Version

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38 And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal unto it.

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Chapter 9 Context

1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, a... Focus ↗

2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins,... Focus ↗

3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God (Elohim) a fo... Focus ↗

4 Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah... Focus ↗

5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethah... Focus ↗

6 Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host... Focus ↗

7 Thou art Jehovah the God (Elohim), who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the... Focus ↗

8 and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the... Focus ↗

9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea, Focus ↗

10 and showedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his l... Focus ↗

11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry... Focus ↗

12 Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou leddest them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give th... Focus ↗

13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ord... Focus ↗

14 and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them commandments, and statutes, and a... Focus ↗

15 and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the r... Focus ↗

16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandment... Focus ↗

17 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened th... Focus ↗

18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God (Elohim) that brought thee up... Focus ↗

19 yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed... Focus ↗

20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, a... Focus ↗

21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes... Focus ↗

22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which thou didst allot after their portions: so they... Focus ↗

23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land conc... Focus ↗

24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of th... Focus ↗

25 And they took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cister... Focus ↗

26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, a... Focus ↗

27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the... Focus ↗

28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee; therefore leftest thou them in the hand of... Focus ↗

29 and testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law. Yet they dealt proud... Focus ↗

30 Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy pro... Focus ↗

31 Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou didst not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for t... Focus ↗

32 Now therefore, our God (Elohim), the great, the mighty, and the terrible God (Elohim), who keepest c... Focus ↗

33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wicke... Focus ↗

34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto... Focus ↗

35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and... Focus ↗

36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the f... Focus ↗

37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also th... Focus ↗

38 And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our...

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Book: Nehemiah
Chapter: Chapter 9 (38 verses)
Version: American Standard Version

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