Nehemiah 9:29

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Nehemiah 9:29

You warned them to turn back to Your law,
but they acted arrogantly
and would not obey Your commands.
They sinned against Your ordinances,
which a person will live by if he does them.
They stubbornly resisted,
stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

Nehemiah 9:16

But our ancestors acted arrogantly;
they became stiff-necked and did not listen to Your commands.

Leviticus 18:5

Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am Yahweh.

Nehemiah 9:10

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
all his officials, and all the people of his land,
for You knew how arrogantly they treated our ancestors.
You made a name for Yourself
that endures to this day.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You.
They flung Your law behind their backs
and killed Your prophets
who warned them
in order to turn them back to You.
They committed terrible blasphemies.

Jeremiah 43:2

then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the other arrogant men responded to Jeremiah, “You are speaking a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to live there for a while!’

Zechariah 7:11-12

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship Me.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 31:21

And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do, even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

2 Kings 17:13

Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

2 Chronicles 24:19

Nevertheless, He sent them prophets to bring them back to the Lord; they admonished them, but the people would not listen.

2 Chronicles 36:15

But Yahweh, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of His messengers, sending them time and time again, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Jeremiah 7:26

However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.

Jeremiah 13:15-17

Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,
for the Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 17:23

They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate, not listening or accepting discipline.

Jeremiah 19:15

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city—and on all its dependent villages—all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.’”

Jeremiah 25:3-7

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this very day—23 years—the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed.

Jeremiah 44:10

They have not become humble to this day, and they have not feared or followed My instruction or My statutes that I set before you and your ancestors.

Jeremiah 44:16-17

“As for the word you spoke to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!

Ezekiel 20:11

Then I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

Hosea 6:5

This is why I have used the prophets
to cut them down;
I have killed them with the words of My mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.

Luke 10:28

“You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

Galatians 3:12

But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.

James 4:6-10

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:

God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.

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Summary

Nehemiah 9:29

And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Testifiedst

Yet they

James 4:6

Which

Galatians 3:12

Withdrew the shoulder

Zechariah 7:11

And hardened

Jeremiah 7:26

Jeremiah 17:23

Jeremiah 19:15

General references

2 Chronicles 33:10

Psalm 78:10

Bible References

Testifiedst

Nevertheless, He sent them prophets to bring them back to the Lord; they admonished them, but the people would not listen.

But Yahweh, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of His messengers, sending them time and time again, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this very day—23 years—the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again,

but you have not obeyed.

This is why I have used the prophets
to cut them down;

I have killed them with the words of My mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.

Yet they

Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,
for the Lord has spoken.

They have not become humble to this day, and they have not feared or followed My instruction or My statutes that I set before you and your ancestors.

But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:

God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.

Which

Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am Yahweh.

Then I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.

“You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.

Withdrew the shoulder

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

And hardened

However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate;

they did more evil than their ancestors.

They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate, not listening or accepting discipline.

General references

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.

They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.