Nehemiah 5:13

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Summary

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

I shook my lap

Matthew 10:14

Acts 13:51

Acts 18:6

So god

1 Samuel 15:28

1 Kings 11:29

Zechariah 5:3

Praised

1 Chronicles 16:36

The people

Ecclesiastes 5:5

Bible References

I shook my lap

And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart from that house, or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

So god

And Samuel said to him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, that is better than thou.

And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

Then said he to me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

Praised

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.

The people

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows to the Most High:

Vow, and pay to the LORD your God: let all that are about him bring presents to him that ought to be feared.

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.