Nehemiah 9:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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, they were contentious and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behind their backs and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great abominations.

I put heaven and earth as witnesses today that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land unto which ye pass the Jordan to inherit it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it without being utterly destroyed.

And it shall come to pass when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall reply to them in their face as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed; for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my slaves the prophets.

Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the LORD, and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.

And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by the hand of his messengers, rising up early, and sending because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, which are twenty-three years, the word of the LORD has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and giving notice; but ye have not hearkened.

Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: that thy righteousness be as the light that goes forth.

Yet they

and didst show signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his slaves and on all the people of his land; for thou didst know that they had dealt proudly against them. So didst thou make thee a name, as it is this day.

Then Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and said unto him, Thus hath the LORD God of the Hebrews said, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go that they may serve me.

Hear ye and give ear; do not be proud: for the LORD has spoken.

Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou dost speak falsely; the LORD our God has not sent thee to say, Do not go into Egypt to sojourn there:

They are not broken even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my rights, that I set before you and before your fathers.

But when his heart made itself arrogant, and his spirit hardened itself in pride, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him:

But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

Which

Therefore you shall keep my rights and my statutes, of which the man doing them, shall live in them. I am the LORD.

and I gave them my statutes and declared unto them my rights, by which the man that does them shall live by them.

And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right; do this, and thou shalt live.

For Moses describes the righteousness which is by the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.

And the law is not of faith, but The man that does the commandments shall live by them.

Withdrew the shoulder

But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear.

And hardened

yet they did not hearken unto me, nor incline their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

who did not hear, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive correction.

Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, God of Israel said: Behold, I bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have spoken against her because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words.

General references

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken.

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law