Nehemiah 9:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

Refused

Hebrews 12:25

Mindful

2 Peter 1:12

Appointed

Numbers 14:4

Acts 7:39

A god

Forsookest

1 Kings 6:13

1 Kings 8:57

Psalm 106:43

General references

Numbers 14:4

Bible References

Refused

And why does LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey. Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Moreover thou have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will thou put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,

Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded,

Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,

Mindful

And they forgot his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shown them.

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

Our fathers did not understand thy wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of thy loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up,

Therefore I will not neglect to always remind you about these things, although having known them, and having been established in the present truth.

Appointed

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

To whom our fathers did not want to become obedient, but they thrust away, and turned back in their heart to Egypt,

A god

LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth gene

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou may be feared.

Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Forsookest

And I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us,

Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

General references

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.