Verse 38
Nehemiah 9:38
King James Version
38
And because of all this we make a sure
covenant, and write
it; and our princes, Levites,
and 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...
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins,...
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3
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God (Elohim)
one...
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4
Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebia...
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5
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah,
and Pethahia...
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6
Thou,
even thou,
art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host,...
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7
Thou
art the LORD the God (Elohim), who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of th...
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8
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the...
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9
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
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10
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his l...
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11
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry...
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12
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to g...
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13
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right jud...
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14
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by t...
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15
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the r...
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16
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandme...
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17
And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened th...
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18
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This
is
thy God (Elohim) that brought thee up...
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19
Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud depa...
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20
Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, a...
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21
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness,
so that they lacked nothing; their cloth...
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22
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possesse...
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23
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, con...
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24
So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of th...
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25
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, v...
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26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs,...
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27
Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of t...
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28
But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of...
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29
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proud...
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30
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets:...
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31
Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for...
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32
Now therefore, our God (Elohim), the great, the mighty, and the terrible God (Elohim), who keepest c...
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33
Howbeit thou
art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wic...
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34
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto...
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35
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and...
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36
Behold, we
are servants this day, and
for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the frui...
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37
And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also th...
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38
And because of all this we make a sure
covenant, and write
it; and our princes, Levites,
and priests...