Nehemiah 9:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

Nor hearkened

Jeremiah 29:19

Thy testimonies

Nehemiah 9:30

2 Kings 17:15

Thou didst

Deuteronomy 31:21

2 Kings 17:13

General references

Job 34:31

Psalm 106:6

Bible References

Nor hearkened

because they have not listened to My words,’ declares the Lord, ‘which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,’ declares the Lord.

Thy testimonies

“However, You bore with them for many years,
And admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets,
Yet they would not give ear.
Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them not to do like them.

Thou didst

Then it shall come about, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify before them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants); for I know their intent which they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

General references

“For has anyone said to God,
‘I have borne chastisement;
I will not offend anymore;

We have sinned

like our fathers,

We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.