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Nehemiah 9:1
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Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month
the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and
earth upon them. |
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| Nehemiah 9:2 |
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And the seed of Israel separated themselves
from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of
their fathers. |
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| Nehemiah 9:3 |
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And they stood up in their place, and read in
the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another
fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. |
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| Nehemiah 9:4 |
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Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites,
Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and
cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. |
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| Nehemiah 9:5 |
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Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani,
Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless
the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is
exalted above all blessing and praise. |
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| Nehemiah 9:6 |
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Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made
heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things
that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them
all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. |
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| Nehemiah 9:7 |
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Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose
Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the
name of Abraham; |
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| Nehemiah 9:8 |
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And foundest his heart faithful before thee,
and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give
it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: |
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| Nehemiah 9:9 |
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And didst see the affliction of our fathers
in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; |
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| Nehemiah 9:10 |
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And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh,
and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that
they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this
day. |
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| Nehemiah 9:11 |
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And thou didst divide the sea before them, so
that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors
thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. |
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| Nehemiah 9:12 |
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Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy
pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein
they should go. |
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| Nehemiah 9:13 |
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Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and
spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws,
good statutes and commandments: |
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| Nehemiah 9:14 |
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And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath,
and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: |
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| Nehemiah 9:15 |
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And gavest them bread from heaven for their
hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst,
and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst
sworn to give them. |
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| Nehemiah 9:16 |
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But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and
hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, |
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| Nehemiah 9:17 |
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And refused to obey, neither were mindful of
thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their
rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready
to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest
them not. |
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| Nehemiah 9:18 |
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Yea, when they had made them a molten calf,
and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great
provocations; |
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| Nehemiah 9:19 |
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Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest
them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by
day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them
light, and the way wherein they should go. |
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| Nehemiah 9:20 |
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Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct
them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for
their thirst. |
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| Nehemiah 9:21 |
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Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in
the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and
their feet swelled not. |
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| Nehemiah 9:22 |
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Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations,
and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the
land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. |
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| Nehemiah 9:23 |
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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. |
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| Nehemiah 9:24 |
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So the children went in and possessed the land,
and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and
gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that
they might do with them as they would. |
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| Nehemiah 9:25 |
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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. |
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| Nehemiah 9:26 |
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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled
against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which
testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. |
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| Nehemiah 9:27 |
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Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand
of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they
cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold
mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. |
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| Nehemiah 9:28 |
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But after they had rest, they did evil again
before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that
they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee,
thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according
to thy mercies; |
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| Nehemiah 9:29 |
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And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest
bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto
thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall
live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not
hear. |
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| Nehemiah 9:30 |
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Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and
testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give
ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. |
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| Nehemiah 9:31 |
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Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou
didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and
merciful God. |
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| Nehemiah 9:32 |
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Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,
and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble
seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes,
and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people,
since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. |
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| Nehemiah 9:33 |
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Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought
upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: |
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| Nehemiah 9:34 |
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Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests,
nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies,
wherewith thou didst testify against them. |
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| Nehemiah 9:35 |
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For they have not served thee in their kingdom,
and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land
which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. |
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| Nehemiah 9:36 |
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Behold, we are servants this day, and for the
land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
behold, we are servants in it: |
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And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings
whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our
bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress. |
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| Nehemiah 9:38 |
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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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