Nehemiah 9:30

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Summary

Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Many years

Psalm 86:15

Romans 2:4

2 Peter 3:9

Testifiedst

By thy spirit

Therefore

General references

Bible References

Many years

But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Testifiedst

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you 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 my servants the prophets.

And the LORD God of their fathers sent word to them by his messengers, sending them time and again; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

And the LORD has sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

By thy spirit

You gave also your good spirit to instruct them, and withheld not your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.

And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after Paul had spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,

Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore

And now; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD your God has pronounced this evil upon this place.

So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

The LORD has done that which he had purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the might of your adversaries.

Therefore it has come to pass, that just as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:

General references

And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

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

And the Spirit entered into me when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spoke unto me.

The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after this he had said before,