Nehemiah 9:1-17
twenty-fourth <06242> [Now.]
On the first of this month was the feast of trumpets; on the tenth, the day of atonement; on the fourteenth began the feast of tabernacles, which lasted seven days, ending on the twenty- second; on the twenty-third, they separated themselves from their illegitimate wives; and on the twenty-fourth, they held a solemn day of fasting and confession of sin, and reading the law; the whole of which they closed by renewing their covenants.
twenty-fourth <06242> [twenty.]
month <02320> [of this month.]
Israelites <01121> [children.]
dust <0127> [earth.]
descent <02233> [the seed.]
foreigners <01121> [strangers. Heb. strange children.]
confessing <03034> [confessed.]
<06965> [they stood.]
fourth <07243> [one fourth.]
steps <04608> [stairs. or, scaffold. Jeshua.]
called out <02199> [cried.]
Stand up <06965> [Stand up.]
bless ....................... blessed <01288> [bless.]
glorious <03519> [thy glorious.]
lifted up <07311> [exalted.]
LORD <03068> [even thou.]
made <06213> [thou hast.]
heavens .... highest heavens ................................... heaven <08064> [the heaven.]
life <02421> [preservest.]
stars .......................... multitudes <06635> [the host.]
chose <0977> [choose.]
Ur <0218> [Ur.]
changed <07760> [gavest.]
perceived <04672> [foundest.]
established <03772> [madest.]
Canaanites <03669> [the Canaanites.]
fulfilled <06965> [hast performed.]
righteous <06662> [righteous.]
saw <07200> [didst see.]
heard <08085> [heardest.]
performed <05414> [shewedst.]
acted presumptuously <02102> [they.]
made <06213> [didst.]
split <01234> [divide.]
pursuers <07291> [their persecutors.]
stone <068> [as a stone.]
guided <05148> [thou leddest.]
path <01870> [in the way.]
down <03381> [camest.]
spoke <01696> [spakest.]
provided them <05414> [gavest.]
true laws <08451 0571> [true laws. Heb. laws of truth.]
known <03045> [madest.]
issued ....... them <06680> [commandedst.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
provided ............. you ............................... give <05414> [gavest.]
forth <03318> [broughtest.]
enter <0935> [go.]
<03027> [sworn. Heb. lift up thine hand.]
presumptuously <02102> [dealt.]
<07185> [hardened.]
obey <08085> [hearkened.]
There were two things to which the Israelites did not duly give heed, else they had not done as they did. The word of God they heard, but they gave no heed to God's commandments: and the works of God they saw, but were not mindful of his wonders. Had they really considered them as miracles, they would have obeyed from a principle of faith and holy fear: had they duly considered them as mercies, they would have obeyed from a principle of gratitude and holy love.
refused <03985> [refused.]
recall <02142> [mindful.]
rebelled <04805> [in their rebellion.]
Instead of {bemiryam,} "in their rebellion," seven MSS., one edition, and the LXX., have {bemitzrayim,} "in Egypt:" "appointed a captain to return to their bondage in Egypt."
appointed <05414> [appointed.]
God <0433> [a God.]
forgiveness <05547> [ready to pardon. Heb. of pardons. gracious.]
abandon <05800> [forsookest.]
