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 registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

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 out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel

and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame."

Cleanse

And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada,

Sanctify

"'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

Spare me

Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.

If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!

Greatness

But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.