Nehemiah 1:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

If ye turn

Yet will i

Will bring

Jeremiah 3:14

Ezekiel 36:24

The place

Deuteronomy 12:5

1 Kings 9:3

Ezra 6:12

General references

Deuteronomy 4:27

Bible References

If ye turn

So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons,

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Yet will i

Then say, “Save us, O God of our salvation,

And gather us and deliver us from the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
And glory in Your praise.”

Save us, O Lord our God,

And gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And

glory in Your praise.

The Lord

builds up Jerusalem;

He gathers the outcasts of Israel.

And He will lift up a standard for the nations
And assemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.

The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered.”

And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.

Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
And declare in the coastlands afar off,
And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him
And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands to which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and make them dwell in safety.

And I will bring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his desire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.

And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His

elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Will bring

‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares the Lord;
‘For I am a master to you,
And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,
And I will bring you to Zion.’

For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.

The place

But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

May the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who attempts to change it, so as to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree, let it be carried out with all diligence!”

General references

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.