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

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of the heavens and of the earth,

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

Thus will I bless thee in my life; in thy name shall I lift up my hands.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the gift of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Nun Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

I desire, therefore, that the men in every place, pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and strife.

Bowed

Then the man bowed down his head and worshipped the LORD.

And the people believed; and hearing that the LORD had visited the sons of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed and worshipped.

That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. Then the people bowed and worshipped.

Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and likewise all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

Moreover, Hezekiah, the king, and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph, the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshipped.

With their faces

And there came a fire out from before the LORD and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat, which when all the people saw, they praised and fell on their faces.

And he went a little further and fell on his face, praying and saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

And all the angels stood round about the throne and about the elders and the four animals; and they fell upon their faces before the throne and worshipped God,

General references

Then the man bowed down his head and worshipped the LORD.

saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in Moses' seat;