Nehemiah 9

Treated in 9 passages across the library.

  • 9:20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. 3
  • 9:38 And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal unto it. 2
  • 9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 1
  • 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Jehovah your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. 1
  • 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 1
  • 9:17 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their neck, 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 abundant in lovingkindness, and forsookest them not. 1

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  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Neh 9: 13

    …t known them.’ Psa 147: 20. ‘Thou gavest them true laws, good statutes and commandments.’ Neh 9: 13. What a strange creature would man be if he had no law to direct him! There would be no l…

  2. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit · R. A. Torrey

    The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Nehemiah 9:20

    … of the Holy Spirit comes out in the Old Testament as truly as in the New, for we read in Nehemiah 9:20, “You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their m…

  3. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Neh. 9:20

    … to me, I would have been in hell to-day. (5) Turn now to a passage in the Old Testament. Neh. 9:20. "Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from t…

  4. Till He Come · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Neh. ix. 17

    …for a comfortable look or a kind salutation? but He is “ready to pardon, slow to anger.” (Neh. ix. 17.) He is like Noah’s sons, He goes backward, and throws a cloak over our nakedness; or we …

  5. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Neh. 9:2

    …y into covenant, it was with confession or public confession of repentance of their sins, Neh. 9:2. This profession of repentance should include or imply a profession of conviction, that G…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Neh 9: 5

    …f honour. ‘Blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.’ Neh 9: 5. He is above all the acclamations and triumphs of the archangels. O then, let every true …

  7. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    February cites Nehemiah 9:20

    … ye ivory palaces, ye shall hear the songs of the saints! February 16 “Thy good Spirit.” (Nehemiah 9:20) Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitu…

  8. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    April cites Nehemiah 9:38

    …ng his olives in Gethsemane. April 24 “And because of all this we make a sure covenant.” (Nehemiah 9:38) There are many occasions in our experience when we may very rightly, and with benefit, r…

  9. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    October cites Neh 9:38

    …s. AMEN. October 17 MAKING A COVENANT WITH GOD “We make a sure covenant, and write it.”-- Neh 9:38. “He is the Mediator of a better covenant.”-- Heb 8:6. IT IS good for a soul to make a co…