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 writing of those being enrolled, and it was not found: and they will be defiled from the priesthood.

And the priests and the Levites will be purified, and they will purify the people and the gates and the wall

And the king will command Hilkiah the great priest and the priests of the second rank, and the watchers of the threshold to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels being made for Baal and for the image, and for all the army of the heavens: and they will burn them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and he lifted up their dust to the house of God.

And he will say to them, Ye heads of the fathers to the Levites: ye shall purify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and bring ye up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel to that I prepared for it.

And he will bring in the priests and the Levites, and he will gather them together to the street of the sunrising,

And kings were thy supporters, and princesses thy nurses: their faces to the earth they shall worship to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah, that they shall not be ashamed waiting for me.

Cleanse

And Joshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

Sanctify

Watch the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

Spare me

Remember thy compassions, O Jehovah, and thy mercies; for they are from forever.

To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions.

If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?

Chanting to David. O Jahovah, hear my prayer, give ear to my supplication: in thy faithfulness answer me; in thy justice.

Greatness

And I in the multitude of thy mercy will come into thy house; I will worship to thy holy temple in thy fear.

The unjust one shall forsake his way, and the man of vanity his purposes, and turn back to Jehovah, and he will pity him, and to our God, for he will multiply to forgive.