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 to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth,

Hear the voice of my prayers, when I cry to You, when I lift up my hands toward Your Holy Place.

So I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

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

Let my prayer be set forth before You as incense, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Let us lift up our heart and hands to God in Heaven.

Therefore, I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

Bowed

And the man bowed down his head, and worshiped the Lord.

And the people believed. And when they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed and worshiped.

Then you shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah's passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped.

And Jehoshaphat bowed his face to the ground. And all Judah and the people of Jerusalem fell before Jehovah, worshiping Jehovah.

And Hezekiah the king and the rulers commanded the Levites to sing praise to Jehovah with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

With their faces

And there came a fire out from before Jehovah, and burned up the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. And all the people saw and shouted and fell on their faces.

And He went a little further and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.

And all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God,

General references

And the man bowed down his head, and worshiped the Lord.

saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.