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 wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

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

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Mindful

And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be 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 would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

A god

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

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

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

Forsookest

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

The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

General references

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