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 saith unto the king of Sodom, 'I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth --

Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

My prayer is prepared -- incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands -- the evening present.

We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

Bowed

And the man boweth, and doth obeisance to Jehovah,

and the people believe when they hear that Jehovah hath looked after the sons of Israel, and that He hath seen their affliction; and they bow and do obeisance.

that ye have said, A sacrifice of passover it is to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, in His smiting the Egyptians, and our houses He delivered.'

And Jehoshaphat boweth -- face to the earth -- and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have fallen before Jehovah, to bow themselves to Jehovah.

And Hezekiah the king saith, and the princes, to the Levites to give praise to Jehovah in the words of David, and of Asaph the seer, and they praise -- unto joy, and they bow, and do obeisance.

With their faces

and fire cometh out from before Jehovah, and consumeth on the altar the burnt-offering, and the fat; and all the people see, and cry aloud, and fall on their faces.

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, 'My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God,

General references

And the man boweth, and doth obeisance to Jehovah,

saying, 'On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;