Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
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Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to Nehemiah 9:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 17:13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, 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 my servants the prophets.”
- Jeremiah 29:19 because they have not listened to my words,” says Yahweh, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 31:21 It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
- 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
- Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That thou wouldest destroy them, except they would return…
That thou wouldest destroy them, except they would return to thee, as verse 26.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Neh 9:34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our…
Neh 9:34 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.
Ver. 34. Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, &c.] But as there hath been a general defection, so a well-deserved desolation, wherein we have all justly shared.
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Nor hearkened to thy commandments] And that because they testified against their contrary practices. This wicked men cannot away with, they hate him that reproveth in the gate, as Ahab did Micaiah. None but the gracious can say, Let the righteous smite me, be the reproof never so well tempered. No sugar can bereave a pill of its bitterness. Now the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meats, Job 12:11. And ungodly men (as they write of some creatures) have fel in aure, and must get their ears cured ere they can be in case to hear God’s commandments and his testimonies. It is said of Gerson, that he loved a friendly reprover; and of Queen Anne Bullen, that she not only was willing to be admonished, but also required her chaplains freely and plainly to tell her of whatsoever was amiss. Scilicet Christus voluit aliquando etiam reginam in coelum vehere, as Luther once said of Elizabeth, queen of Denmark. These kings and princes of Israel were nonsuch.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor…
Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law,.... All ranks of men, from the highest to the lowest, had shown no regard, nor yielded obedience to the holy law of God:
nor hearkened unto thy commandments, and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them; moral and ceremonial, which were a testification of the will of God to them, and a testimony against them if they observed them not.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 34. Neither have our kings] In this verse…
Verse 34. Neither have our kings] In this verse he acknowledges that the kings, princes, priests, and fathers, had broken the law: but the prophets are left out; for they continued faithful to God, testifying by his Spirit against the crimes of all; and this even at the risk of their lives.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 34. neither have our kings] The construction is the…
34. neither have our kings] The construction is the same as in Neh_9:19; Neh_9:32, ‘As for our kings, … they have not.’
kept thy law] Literally ‘done thy law,’ i.e. carried into practice the Divine teaching. Cf. Neh_9:14; Neh_9:29.
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nor hearkened] Cf. Zec_1:4, ‘But they (your fathers) did not hear nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.’
didst testify against them] Probably with special reference to Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28-30.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (34) Our kings.—Note that the prophets are omitted in…
(34) Our kings.—Note that the prophets are omitted in this enumeration.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. i.e.…
Thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. i.e. the testimony borne by the prophets (see ver. 30).
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