Verse 25

Nehemiah 9:25

King James Version

25 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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יִּלְכְּד֞וּ עָרִ֣ים בְּצֻרוֹת֮ וַ/אֲדָמָ֣ה שְׁמֵנָה֒ וַ/יִּֽירְשׁ֡וּ בָּתִּ֣ים מְלֵֽאִים כָּל ט֠וּב בֹּר֨וֹת חֲצוּבִ֜ים כְּרָמִ֧ים וְ/זֵיתִ֛ים וְ/עֵ֥ץ מַאֲכָ֖ל לָ/רֹ֑ב וַ/יֹּאכְל֤וּ וַֽ/יִּשְׂבְּעוּ֙ וַ/יַּשְׁמִ֔ינוּ וַ/יִּֽתְעַדְּנ֖וּ בְּ/טוּבְ/ךָ֥ הַ/גָּדֽוֹל
English Translation
And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land, and they inherited houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards and olive trees, and trees for food in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied, and they became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
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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... 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 strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, v...
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 ↗