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 has Jehovah brought us into this land to fall by the sword, so that our wives and our sons should be a prey? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?

Besides, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance in fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

And they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His Word,

Because I called, and you refused; I stretched out my hand, and no one paid attention;

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

Mindful

And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them.

For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You.

Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

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

Therefore I will not neglect to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

Appointed

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

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him away and turned back again to Egypt in their hearts,

A god

Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.

For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You.

But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared.

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy.

Forsookest

And I will live among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.

May Jehovah 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 rebelled in their counsel and sank in their iniquities.

General references

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