Nehemiah 13:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

I commanded

Cleanse

Nehemiah 12:10

Sanctify

Deuteronomy 5:12

Spare me

Greatness

Psalm 5:7

Isaiah 55:7

Bible References

I commanded

These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

and said unto them, Ye are the heads of the fathers houses of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto the place that I have prepared for it.

And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.

Cleanse

And Jeshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

Sanctify

Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

Spare me

Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

Greatness

But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.