“Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
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“Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
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Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
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Now these are Thy servants and Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed by Thy great power, and by Thy strong hand.
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Passages linked to Nehemiah 1:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
- Daniel 9:15-27 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly. Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us. “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake. Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God; yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering. He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding. At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision. “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times. After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined. He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
- Exodus 32:11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
- Exodus 6:1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”
- Exodus 13:9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 15:13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Deuteronomy 15:15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
- Psalms 74:2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
- Psalms 136:12 with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:
- Isaiah 63:16-19 For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name. O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance. Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary. We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
- Isaiah 64:9 Don’t be furious, Yahweh. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Neh 1:10 Now these [are] thy servants and thy…
Neh 1:10 Now these [are] thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
Ver. 10. Now these are thy servants and thy people] And therefore thou art concerned, in point of honour, to see to them, and to work for them, as every master will do for his servants, and king for his subjects. Otherwise, the neighbouring nations our enemies may possibly say as Aigoland, king of Saragossa, in Aragon, did; of whom it is reported, that he long time made Charlemagne believe that he would be baptized. And when he came for that purpose to the French court, and saw many diseased and poor people expecting alms from the emperor’s table, he asking what they were? was answered, that they were the servants and people of God. On these words he speedily returned, desperately protesting that he would not serve that God which could keep his servants no better.
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Whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power] And wilt thou part with thy purchase, or obscure the glory of thy conquest over the gods and people of Egypt, by leaving this thy people destitute?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Now these are thy servants, and thy people,.... Meaning…
Now these are thy servants, and thy people,.... Meaning those that were in Jerusalem and Judah, gathered out of several countries, and returned to Jerusalem:
whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand; touching and moving the heart of Cyrus to proclaim liberty to them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Neh 1:10. Whom thou hast redeemed by thy great…
Neh 1:10. Whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, &c. — In days of old, and thy power is still the same; wilt thou not therefore still redeem them, and perfect their redemption? Let not them be overpowered by the enemy that have a God of infinite power on their side.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Redeemed, or liberated from great evils. (Menochius)
Redeemed, or liberated from great evils. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. This verse states the ground on which the…
10. This verse states the ground on which the privilege of the promise is claimed.
Now these are thy servants, &c.] The connexion of thought, which is not very obvious at first sight, seems to be as follows. Having stated the Divine promise, Nehemiah returns in thought to ‘the children of thy servants’ of Neh_1:6. They, by their confession of sin, had fulfilled the condition, they had ‘returned’ unto their God. They could claim the fulfilment of His promise. They were not aliens. They were His own people whom He Himself had redeemed.
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whom thou hast redeemed] Of the two Hebrew words, rendered by the English ‘redeem,’ i.e. ‘ga’al’ and ‘padah,’ the word here used is ‘padah.’ It is noteworthy that in the similar expression, Exo_6:6, ‘redeem you with a stretched out arm,’ the word ‘ga’al’ is used, while here, as always in Deuteronomy (Deu_7:8, Deu_9:26, Deu_13:5, Deu_15:15, Deu_21:8, Deu_24:18), the word ‘redeem’ is ‘padah.’ LXX. ἐλυτρώσω; Vulg. redemisti. The redemption, here spoken of, looks back, beyond the recent restoration from Babylon, to the original deliverance from Egypt, which sealed for ever the relation between Jehovah and His people.
by thy great power, and by thy strong hand] Nehemiah combines two familiar phrases which do not seem to be elsewhere combined except in Exo_32:11 ‘thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand.’ Along with ‘great power’ we frequently find ‘a stretched out arm,’ as in Deu_9:29; 2Ki_17:36; Jer_27:5; Jer_32:17 : and again ‘a stretched out arm’ following upon ‘a strong (or mighty) hand,’ as in Deu_4:34; Deu_5:15; Deu_7:19; Deu_11:2; 1Ki_8:42; 2Ch_6:32; Psa_136:12; Jer_32:21; Eze_20:33-34.
It is possible that Nehemiah here has the Jehovist Exo_32:11 in his thoughts. But as the reading there is doubtful, both the Samaritan and the LXX. texts having ‘a stretched out arm’ instead of ‘a mighty hand,’ we cannot be confident that we have here a quotation.
The words ‘yad hakhezakah’ are rendered by the R.V. ‘strong hand’ here and Exo_3:19; Exo_6:1; Exo_13:9; Num_20:20; Psa_136:12; Jer_32:21 (Eze_30:22), and ‘mighty hand’ in Exo_32:11; Deu_4:34; Deu_5:15; Deu_6:21; Deu_7:8; Deu_7:19; Deu_9:26; Deu_11:2; Deu_26:8; Deu_34:12; Jos_4:24; 1Ki_8:42; 2Ch_6:32; Eze_20:33-34.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy great…
Thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power. It would be better to translate, "Whom thou didst redeem." The reference is especially to the deliverance from Egypt, which is so constantly spoken of as effected "with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm". (Deu_9:29 Deu_26:8, etc.)
A powerful plea with God.
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"Now these are thy servants," etc.
I When such an appeal is SUITABLE. When praying for a Church
(1) declining,
(2) divided,
(3) distressed, or
(4) persecuted.
II The NATURE of the appeal. It is an appeal to God"s
(1) relation to his people a relation he has himself established;
(2) love for them;
(3) regard for his own honour as involved in their welfare; (Deu_9:26-29 Jer_14:21)
(4) pity in view of their condition;
(5) past deeds on their behalf showing kindness; a pledge of more; manifesting purposes not yet completed. The appeal is suitable for individual Christians, praying for themselves. (see Psa_119:94)
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain (See Scofield "Exo 14:30").
redeemed
(See Scofield "Exo 14:30").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Nehemiah continues his prayer.
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Now
This word is used here to mark a break in Nehemiah's prayer. Here he begins to make his request based on Yahweh's promise.
they are your servants
The word "they" refers to the Israelite people.
by your great power and by your strong hand
Here "hand" represents strength or power. Together, these two phrases form a doublet that emphasizes the intensity of Yahweh's power. AT: "by your great power and by your mighty strength" or "by your very powerful strength" (See: Metonymy and Doublet)
the prayer of your servant
Here "servant" refers to Nehemiah. This is how a person would address his superior in order to show humility and respect. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 1:6.
the prayer of your servants
Here "servants" refers to the rest of the Israelite people who would have been praying for Yahweh to act on behalf of his people and on behalf of Jerusalem.
who delight to honor your name
Here "name" represents Yahweh himself. AT: "who delight to honor you" (See: Metonymy)
grant him mercy in the sight of this man
Here "him" refers to Nehemiah, who refers to himself in the third person to express his humility before God, and "this man" refers to Artaxerxes, the king of Persia.
in the sight of this man
Nehemiah speaks of the king's attitude or disposition as if it were how the king viewed something. AT: "grant that the king will have mercy on me" (See: Metaphor)
I served as cupbearer to the king
This is background information about Nehemiah's role in the king's court. Your language may have a special way to mark background information. (See: Background Information)
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servant
people of God
power
hand
Yahweh
beg
pray
honor
name
mercy
servant
cupbearer
king
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 1:10 Nehemiah alludes to God’s long-standing covenant relationship with…
1:10 Nehemiah alludes to God’s long-standing covenant relationship with the Israelites: He had rescued them in the Exodus (Deut 9:29) and made them his servants.
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