Verse 23

Nehemiah 9:23

New King James Version

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23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וּ/בְנֵי/הֶ֣ם הִרְבִּ֔יתָ כְּ/כֹכְבֵ֖י הַ/שָּׁמָ֑יִם וַ/תְּבִיאֵ/ם֙ אֶל הָ/אָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר אָמַ֥רְתָּ לַ/אֲבֹתֵי/הֶ֖ם לָ/ב֥וֹא לָ/רָֽשֶׁת

English Translation

And you have multiplied their sons like the stars of the heavens and brought them to the land that you said to their fathers to come to possess.

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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 strangers, and stood and confessed their sins,... Focus ↗

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

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

5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahia... Focus ↗

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

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

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

9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; Focus ↗

10 And shewedst 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 thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to g... Focus ↗

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

14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by t... 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 necks, and hearkened not to thy commandme... 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 the cloud depa... 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, so that they lacked nothing; their cloth... Focus ↗

22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possesse... Focus ↗

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

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

25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, v... Focus ↗

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

27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of t... 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 forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets:... Focus ↗

31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for... 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 brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wic... 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 for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the frui... 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 because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Nehemiah
Chapter: Chapter 9 (38 verses)
Version: New King James Version

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