Nehemiah 8:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

With lifting

1 Timothy 2:8

Bowed

2 Chronicles 29:30

With their faces

Leviticus 9:24

Matthew 26:39

Revelation 7:11

General references

Genesis 24:26

Matthew 23:2

Bible References

With lifting

But Abram answered the king of Sodom, "I have made an oath to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

Hear the sound of my supplications when I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.

So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in your name.

Lift up your hands to the Holy Place and bless the LORD.

Let my prayer be like incense offered before you, and my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice.

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven.

Therefore, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative.

Bowed

At this, the man bowed down and worshipped the LORD.

The people believed and understood that the LORD had paid attention to the Israelis and had seen their affliction. They bowed their heads and prostrated themselves in worship.

you are to say, "It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelis in Egypt when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" Then the people bowed down and worshipped.

Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground, and all the assembled inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem fell face down in the LORD's presence and worshipped the LORD.

King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the descendants of Levi to sing praises to the LORD based on psalms that had been written by David and Asaph the seer. So they all joyfully sang praises, bowed low, and worshipped.

With their faces

A fire came down from the LORD's presence and consumed the burnt offering on the altar as well as the fat. When the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

Going on a little farther, he fell on his face and prayed, "O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."

All the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God,

General references

At this, the man bowed down and worshipped the LORD.

"The scribes and the Pharisees administer the authority of Moses,