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 replied to the king of Sodom, "I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow

Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!

For this reason I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the Lord!

May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!

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

So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.

Bowed

The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord,

and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.

then you will say, 'It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.'" The people bowed down low to the ground,

Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him.

King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms of David and Asaph the prophet. So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

With their faces

Then fire went out from the presence of the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat parts on the altar, and all the people saw it, so they shouted loudly and fell down with their faces to the ground.

Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will."

And all the angels stood there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground before the throne and worshiped God,

General references

The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord,

"The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.